fortlike

comparative more fortlike · superlative most fortlike

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

   You know things are not going to work out well for a petty criminal when, stranded in a fortlike compound occupied by three young women who look like American Girl versions of 19th-century psychiatric nurses and talk like the weird sisters in “Macbeth,” he innocently inquires about Internet access.

   2008 June 5, Ginia Bellafante, “Horror Show’s Life Lessons ...Er, Maybe Death Lessons”, in New York Times