barricades

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barricades

noun

  1. plural plural of barricade Groups of citizens (...) were scattered round; and if they were to be as violent in action as they were in gesture and discourse, the future might well be matter of apprehension. But Bournonville, who had witnessed the day of the barricades in the first La Fronde, looked on with great composure.

verb

  1. indicative, present, singular, third person third-person singular simple present indicative of barricade

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Closest in meaning: barricado, bar, blockade, block, roadblock, block up, block off, barrages, barriers, blockades, blocks, checkpoints, dams, gates, hurdles, obstacles

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@misc{barricades_2026,
  title = {barricades},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/barricades},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}