barricade

Borrowed from French barricade.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌbæɹɪˈkeɪd/
• (US, Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA^(key): /ˌbæɹɪˈkeɪd/
• (US, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˌbɛɹɪˈkeɪd/

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barricade (plural barricades)

1. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
2. An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
   • 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:

     Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.

   • 2019, Roshini Sharma, Dr. Scoop and The N.E.R.D.S.: The Frankfurter of Doom:

     Her future friend from grade six, Millie Mirarch, was often caught in various parts of the school being told that she was extremely pretty —for a girl with teeth held together by a metal wire that protruded well beyond the barricade of her lips.

   • 2022 May 28, Phil McCulty, “Liverpool 0-1 Real Madrid”, in BBC Sport:

     Salah will ask himself forever how he did not score at least one goal here. He might have nightmares featuring the face of Courtois, such was the one-man barricade he formed.

3. (figuratively, in the plural) A place of confrontation.
   • 1983 December 3, Jolanta Benal, “Spandex, Sousa, Bad Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 6:

     I have a friend who finds the whole idea of a gay marching band distasteful on the grounds that it replicates straight culture. I'm not ready to follow her to the barricades on that because I think that to some extent the sight of women banging bass drums and men prancing around in pink spandex has to undermine a patriarchal and heterosexist assumption or two.

4. (figuratively) At live music concerts with a standing “pit” section, refers to standing physically right next to or in front of the barricade protecting the stage, thus being the closest audience members to the performing act.

Many larger venues (and almost all festivals) have a standing general admission section in front of the stage known as the “pit”. There are barricades erected some distance from the stage for the artists’ safety. Being at the barricade means being the closest to the stage, with no other attendees in front, thus having the supposed best view of the artist.

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• barricade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Barricade in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

barricade (third-person singular simple present barricades, present participle barricading, simple past and past participle barricaded)

1. to close or block a road etc., using a barricade
2. to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port

• baricade (obsolete)

Borrowed from French barricade, from Italian barricata.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑ.riˈkaː.də/

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• Hyphenation: bar‧ri‧ca‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

barricade f (plural barricades or barricaden, diminutive barricadetje n)

1. A barricade. [from early 17th c.]

   Synonyms: barricadering, versperring

• barricaderen

• Afrikaans: barrikade
• Negerhollands: barrikad, barkad
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: barikat (archaic)
• → Indonesian: barikadê

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁi.kad/

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• Homophones: barricadent, barricades

From barrique +‎ -ade.

barricade f (plural barricades)

1. barricade

• barricader

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

barricade

1. inflection of barricader:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “barricade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.