barricado
Americannoun
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barricadoes,
plural
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barricados
plural
verb (used with object)
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of barricado
1580–90; a pseudo-Spanish form of barricade
Vocabulary lists containing barricado
Example Sentences
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Am I excluded from my own fortress; and by the way of barricado?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
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 Ben Jonson
"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 G. S. Cautley
I asked how she had got in, as the whole chevaux-de-frise barricado of chairs was still standing fast at the door.
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
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 Daniel Defoe
Since last we parted at the barricadoes, The world's turned upside down.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
A small slender piece of ordnance, formerly used for ships' barricadoes.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
The latter; however, experienced in Moorish attack, retired in close order, sometimes turning upon the enemy and driving them to their barricadoes, and then pursuing their retreat.
From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving
Because no barricadoes have been made at Blois.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
With his stick he commenced a more furious attack than before; and, observing us less turbulent, he appeared determined to force his way in spite of the barricadoes.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend
He speaks of purchasing “four or five tons of corke, to send this day to the fleet, being a new device to make barricados with, instead of junke.”
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
I therefore barricadoed myself in my house, and having put myself in a posture of defence, when they came in the night, according to their custom, to surprise me, they durst not attack me.
From History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing by Le Page du Pratz
Well, Mascari," said the prince, looking up towards his parasite, who stood by the embrasure of the deep-set barricadoed window,—"well! the Cardinal sleeps with his fathers.
From Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
After that they would be free from all the world—they would never go back to be haunted by the sight of "Sorrow barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities."
From Love's Pilgrimage by Upton Sinclair
It was discovered by some of the King's men that the street leading to Wigan had not been barricadoed.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. by Mrs. Thomson
To make short of a long story, he did not find the knife, Mr. Burke barricadoed himself in his room, and Mr. Sullivan turned his wife out of doors.
From Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' by John Wight
The doors were of extraordinary strength, and the means of barricadoing them resembled more a preparation for battle, than the usual securities against petty encroachments on private property.
From The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper
This, Coleridge said, was barricadoing the road to truth: it was setting up a turnpike-gate at every step we took.
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
This, Coleridge said, was barricadoing the road to truth:—it was setting up a turnpike-gate at every step we took.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
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