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
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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
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
The Doctor falls down before the barricado, and is stretched all his hapless length fainting on the floor.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
The sight of the rooms below and of the gratings above, and of the barricado across the deck, and the explanation of the uses of all these, filled me both with melancholy and horror.
From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) by Thomas Clarkson
Why, it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clear storeys toward the south-north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Why, it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clerestories toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?
From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by William Shakespeare
Why, it hath bay-windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clerestories toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
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
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
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
“Shut, shut! quick, quick!” some ran to ask aid from the sheriff; others in haste closed the shop, and barricadoed and secured the doors from within.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
They fortified themselves, however, in the streets and lanes, which they barricadoed.
From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving
Continuing the march next day, they passed several considerable towns, the inhabitants of which had barricadoed their doors with canes and sticks in the manner already mentioned.
He passed the marketplace—it was empty as the desert;—the gloomy and barricadoed streets, in which the countercries of Guelf and Ghibeline had so often cheered on the Chivalry and Rank of Florence.
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
They barricadoed the entrances of their streets also which opened toward the castle, stationing men expert at the crossbow and arquebuse.
From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving
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
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
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