Fastness vs Garrison - What's the difference?
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A secure or fortified place; a stronghold, a fortress
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*:When she came to know writers it was like adventuring upon a stage which till then she had known only from the other side of the footlights. She saw them dramatically, and really seemed herself to live a larger life because she entertained them and visited them in their fastnesses .
The state of being fast.
# firmness, security
# rapidity, swiftness
The ability of a dye to withstand fading
A permanent military post.
The troops stationed at such a post.
(allusive) Occupants.
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Fastness is a related term of garrison.
As a noun fastness
is a secure or fortified place; a stronghold, a fortress.As a proper noun garrison is
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Noun
citation, genre= , publisher=archive.org , isbn= , page= , passage=The incubators are built in remote fastnesses , where there is little or no likelihood of their being discovered by other tribes. }}
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(wikipedia garrison)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I??? Why didn’t I telephone??? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison , forewarned, should escape. …”}}