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palisado

[ pal-uh-sey-doh ]

noun

plural: palisadoespalisadoed palisadoing


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Other Words From

  • unpal·i·sadoed adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of palisado1

From the Spanish word palizada
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Example Sentences

The track is long gone and you’d never expect to see a horse race down Palisado Avenue’s paved two-lane road these days, but the neighborhood still shows vestiges of the town’s connection to harness racing.

I had still half a day to order my house; from which, for two nights and two days and a half, my breast, its breastwork and palisado, was now, along with my Self, to be withdrawn.

Opposite to the principal Front there’s an Area, encompass’d with an Iron Palisado, in the midst of which is a white marble Statue of Queen Anne, in whose Reign this Church was finish’d; which was begun so long ago as after the Great Fire, in the Reign of Charles II.

Then your palisado, pray what may he be?

So, sir, as I was telling you, I have seen one of these hussars eat up a ravelin for his breakfast, and afterwards pick his teeth with a palisado.

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