| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pal·i·sade |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p l  -s d |
| NOUN: | 1a. A fence of pales forming a defense barrier or fortification. b. One of the pales of such a fence. 2. palisades A line of lofty steep cliffs, usually along a river. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: pal·i·sad·ed, pal·i·sad·ing, pal·i·sades
To equip or fortify with palisades or a palisade. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French palissade, from Old French, from Old Provençal palissada, from palissa, stake, from Vulgar Latin *pl cea, from Latin plus. See pag- in Appendix I.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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