barricade
pronunciation
How to pronounce barricade in British English:
UK [ˌbærɪˈkeɪd]
How to pronounce barricade in American English:
US [ˈbærɪkeɪd]
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- Noun:
- a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.
- a barrier (usually thrown up hastily so as to impede the advance of an enemy)
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- Verb:
- render unsuitable for passage
- prevent access to by barricading
- block off with barricades
Word Origin
- barricade
- barricade: [17] 12 May 1588 was known as la journée des barricades ‘the day of the barricades’, because in the course of disturbances in Paris during the Huguenot wars, large barrels (French barriques) filled with earth, cobblestones, etc were hauled into the street on that day to form barricades – and the term has stuck ever since. Barrique itself was borrowed from Spanish barrica ‘cask’, which was formed from the same stem as that from which English gets barrel [14]. It has been speculated that this was Vulgar Latin *barra ‘bar’, on the basis that barrels are made of ‘bars’ or ‘staves’.=> bar, barrel
- barricade (v.)
- 1590s, from Middle French barricader "to barricade" (1550s), from barrique "barrel," from Spanish barrica "barrel," from baril (see barrel). Revolutionary associations began during 1588 Huguenot riots in Paris, when large barrels filled with earth and stones were set up in the streets. Related: Barricaded; barricading.
- barricade (n.)
- 1640s, from barricade (v.). Earlier was barricado (1580s) with false Spanish ending (see -ado).
Synonym
Example
- 1. I wave them farewell and pull the barricade into place .
- 2. Strasbourg , france : naked german anti-nato protesters prepare a barricade
- 3. He had the right to be killed in that barricade .
- 4. Police and bailiffs manhandled journalists away from the barricade and 20 activists were arrested .
- 5. Jerusalem : israeli border police at a barricade during clashes with palestinians inside the old city