A military term for a type of fortification or defensive structure; also a variant of 'festoon' in some contexts.
From French or Italian military terminology, possibly related to 'festoon' or 'fortification'; the word is rare and its exact etymology is unclear in modern English.
Military terminology is full of borrowed words from French and Italian—'festin' appears in a few historical military texts but has been largely replaced by more standardized terms like 'bastion' or 'fortification.'
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