All 3 Uses of
bastion
in
Lord of the Flies
- There, where the island petered out in water, was another island; a rock, almost detached, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink bastion.
p. 29.3bastion = defensive fortification (like a castle wall)
- This side of the castle, perhaps a hundred feet high, was the pink bastion they had seen from the mountain-top.
p. 104.7 *
- Nothing but what you might expect: pink, tumbled boulders with guano layered on them like icing; and a steep slope up to the shattered rocks that crowned the bastion.
p. 106.3
Definition:
defense or defensive fortification -- such as people who defend a principle or fortifications that defend people from attack (especially the projecting part of a castle wall or rampart)
or:
a prominent example that can be counted upon to demonstrate or uphold a principle
or:
a prominent example that can be counted upon to demonstrate or uphold a principle