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bar⋅ri⋅cade

  [bar-i-keyd, bar-i-keyd] noun, verb, -cad⋅ed, -cad⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy.
2. any barrier that obstructs passage.
–verb (used with object)
3. to obstruct or block with a barricade: barricading the streets to prevent an attack.
4. to shut in and defend with or as if with a barricade: The rebels had barricaded themselves in the old city.
Origin:
1585–95; < F, equiv. to barrique barrel (< Gascon) + -ade -ade 1 ; early barricades in Paris were often composed of barrels

Related forms:
bar⋅ri⋅cad⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. See bar 1 . 4. fortify.
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bar·ri·cade   (bār'ĭ-kād', bār'ĭ-kād')   
n.  

  1. A structure set up across a route of access to obstruct the passage of an enemy.

  2. Something that serves as an obstacle; a barrier. See Synonyms at bulwark.

tr.v.   bar·ri·cad·ed, bar·ri·cad·ing, bar·ri·cades

  1. To close off or block with a barricade.

  2. To keep in or out by means of a barricade.


[French, from barrique, barrel, from Old Provençal barrica, from Vulgar Latin *barrīca; see embargo.]
bar'ri·cad'er n.
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Word Origin & History

barricade  (v.)
1592, from M.Fr. barricader "to barricade" (1558), from barrique, "barrel," itself from Sp. barrica "barrel," perhaps from barra "bar." Extended to "improvised rampart" in 1588 Huguenot riots in Paris, when large barrels filled with earth and stones were set up in the streets. The noun is attested from 1642, earlier barricado (1590).
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