semifortified

English

Etymology

From semi- +‎ fortified.

Adjective

semifortified (not comparable)

1. Partially or somewhat fortified.
   • 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIX, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 170:

     We were walking on grass now, and I saw that the tent-cathedral had been pitched on a champian surrounded by semifortified houses; its insubstantial belfries looked down upon their parapets.