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
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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 Wilson, John
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
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 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 Clarkson, Thomas
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
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 Shakespeare, William
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 Shakespeare, William
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 Behrend, Arthur C.
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 Shakespeare, William
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Kingston, William Henry Giles
But they found the street barricadoed, and a company of musketeers on guard.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
Thrust as I might I could not break it; the window was securely barricadoed.
From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
The pavement had been taken up, the streets barricadoed, the houses on the outskirts loopholed, and the Retiro, a large but weak edifice, occupied by a strong garrison.
From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
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 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
I found that the greatest confusion and uproar prevailed, in consequence of the Sheriffs having stopped up and barricadoed the Two Galleries with three-inch deal planks, lashed together with strong iron plates and hoops.
From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 by Hunt, Henry
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 Cooper, James Fenimore
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 Zeitlin, Jacob
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 Jones, Edmund David
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