Post by t-bob on Jun 6, 2019 10:07:14 GMT -5
BASTION
noun
1. anything seen as preserving or protecting some quality, condition, etc.: a bastion of solitude.
Quotes
... Notre Dame went from being a football school to being not just academically respected but a bastion of intellectual freedom and ideological pluralism .... -- Ann Hornaday, "The timely documentary 'Hesburgh' looks back fondly on a great conciliator," Washington Post, May 1, 2019 ... he'd seen it as a bastion of the familiar and orderly, where negotiations took place the way they were supposed to, in high-backed chairs, with checkbooks and contracts and balance sheets. -- T. C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain, 1995
Origin
The English noun bastion still looks French. It comes from Middle French, from Upper Italian bastione “rampart, bulwark, bastion,” an augmentative noun formed from bastita “fortified,” from the verb bastire “to build,” from Medieval Latin bastīre, possibly of Germanic origin and akin to bastille “tower, small fortress, bastion.” Bastion entered English in the late 16th century
noun
1. anything seen as preserving or protecting some quality, condition, etc.: a bastion of solitude.
Quotes
... Notre Dame went from being a football school to being not just academically respected but a bastion of intellectual freedom and ideological pluralism .... -- Ann Hornaday, "The timely documentary 'Hesburgh' looks back fondly on a great conciliator," Washington Post, May 1, 2019 ... he'd seen it as a bastion of the familiar and orderly, where negotiations took place the way they were supposed to, in high-backed chairs, with checkbooks and contracts and balance sheets. -- T. C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain, 1995
Origin
The English noun bastion still looks French. It comes from Middle French, from Upper Italian bastione “rampart, bulwark, bastion,” an augmentative noun formed from bastita “fortified,” from the verb bastire “to build,” from Medieval Latin bastīre, possibly of Germanic origin and akin to bastille “tower, small fortress, bastion.” Bastion entered English in the late 16th century
