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
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
But the fellow hath a pretty notion of a barricado!
From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin
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 Herbert Strang
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 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
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
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
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
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
Drums and trumpets resounded in every part; all business was interrupted; the shops were shut, the doors barricadoed.
From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving
These 'period' spellings I have left intact: befel, chace, surprized, loth, gallopped, gallopping, secresy, shew, shewed, shewing, preeminence, handfull, negociation, threshhold, trellice, picketted, barricadoed, compaign.
From A Peep into Toorkisthhan by Rollo Gillespie Burslem
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 Sir Walter Scott
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
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
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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