barricado
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of barricado
1580–90; a pseudo-Spanish form of barricade
Vocabulary lists containing barricado
Example Sentences
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Shall I have a barricado made against my friends, to be barr'd of any pleasure they can bring in to me with their honourable visitation?
From Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Jonson, Ben
That combination has evidently to dread the rivalry of British manufacture, and its managers are too shrewd to lose this glorious opportunity of barricado.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
The first party I lighted on was not above sixteen men, who had made a small barricado across the road, and stood resolutely upon their guard.
From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Defoe, Daniel
I sat up, grasping my cudgel, and in a moment, it being broad daylight, I saw a little opening in the barricado, and the nose of some animal pushing through it.
From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert
"Adown the dreadful glacis madly borne, Against that foaming barricado cast, The barque is doomed! and with a hissing scorn The surge will dance upon the foundering mast."
From A Century of Emblems by Cautley, G. S.
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