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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But the fellow hath a pretty notion of a barricado!
From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin)
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
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
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
Confounded by a thousand ideas which arose in my mind in an instant, I sprang upon the barricado and plainly descried two ships of considerable size, standing in for the mouth of the Bay.
From A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay by Tench, Watkin
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
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 Irving, Washington
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; or What You Will by Shakespeare, William
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
Rupert had fled the country; the followers of a sheriff's officer had barricadoed his once splendid home, and, Cerberus-like, were guarding the entrance into wretchedness and gloom.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
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
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)
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 large gate of the court-yard he barricadoed yet more strongly, leaving only a wicket open for the convenience of passage.
From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Scott, Walter, Sir
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 English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
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
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