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
Example Sentences
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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
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 Watkin Tench
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
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
Because no barricadoes have been made at Blois.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
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
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 clear storeys toward the south-north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
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
It was discovered by some of the King's men that the street leading to Wigan had not been barricadoed.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. by Mrs. Thomson
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
Then I asked where Hoggett was, and they told me he had barricadoed himself in the hut, and refused to give up the musket.
From Palm Tree Island by Herbert Strang
When they try to open the door, too, they’ll think we are inside, for I barricadoed it with everything I could find, and there’ll be a pretty smash when they shove it open.”
From The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea by F.C. Tilney
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 J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
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
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
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
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