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palisade

[pal-uh-seyd] / ˌpæl əˈseɪd /


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At Amnya, her team also noted a possible sign of social stratification, another development often linked to agriculture: a cluster of houses that sat, undefended, outside the palisade.

From Science Magazine Nov. 29, 2023

Buckingham Palace was taken aback, and it responded with a terse, 61-word statement that sought to contain the drama within the familiar royal palisade of privacy.

From New York Times Sep. 8, 2022

The numerous small bumps in the palisade parenchyma cells are chloroplasts.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

Eight stories tall, Solaris features a sleek palisade of broad teak-covered decks suitable for hosting a horde of well-heeled partygoers.

From Seattle Times Mar. 5, 2022

At the same time the palisade was also intended to welcome the citizenry—anyone could freely pass through its dozen or so wide gates.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

With room inside for dozens of people and dwellings sunk almost 2 meters deep for warmth in Siberian winters, the fortresses were ringed by earthen walls several meters high and topped with wooden palisades.

From Science Magazine Nov. 29, 2023

The noodle house may be hard to find because it’s literally overshadowed by the palisades of the Great Wall Shopping Mall nearby.

From Seattle Times Jul. 8, 2022

Other than the shell of a reconstructed barracks and the palisades outlining the fort, there were no other attempts at verisimilitude.

From Washington Post Jun. 3, 2022

Survivors from his expedition described large towns of thatched houses, surrounded by strong palisades and watchtowers.

From Textbooks Jan. 18, 2018

Along the shore and up on the palisades, warm yellow light poured from the windows of homes and shell houses.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Last March, Historic St. Mary’s City announced that the outlines of the palisaded fort, erected by White settlers in 1634, had finally been discovered.

From Washington Post Jan. 23, 2022

Then the Iroquois made them their hunting-ground; and beyond, in the valleys of the Mohawk, the Onondaga, and the Genesee, stretched the long line of their five cantons and palisaded towns.

From Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour by Francis Parkman

She saw her people build a strong, new palisaded village there.

From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. Walworth

To lessen the labour, he took the embankment as one wall, and palisaded the top for about a hundred yards.

From Swift and Sure by Herbert Strang

It was a dutiful effort to remember that the Hôtel de Ville had not always been a mangled pile, its palisaded courtyard once something other than the site of a Y.M.C.A. hut.

From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

The palisading could be completed during the year, and in 1668 the village could be said to have changed.

From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. Walworth

Behind the palisading men were seen, as if watching the approach, and ready to receive them in a hostile manner.

From The White Squaw by Mayne Reid

To this venerable ruin, which an iron palisading protects from wanton hands, clings the tradition that Parliaments of King John and Edward the First met under its shade, the last in October, 1290.

From The Dukeries by E. W. Haslehust

Each had its own doorway, a massive piece of palisading.

From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Arthur Griffiths

But there was nothing, to our knowledge, which was unusual about that palisading, except, perhaps, its triangular shape.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman




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