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
Example Sentences
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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
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)
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 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
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