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fastness (n.)
[fastness 词源字典]
"a place not easily forced, a stronghold," late Old English
fæstnes
"firmness, strongness, massiveness, stability; the firmament," from
fast
(adj.) in its older sense of "firm, fixed in place" +
-ness
.
[fastness etymology, fastness origin, 英语词源]