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palisades

/palɪseɪdz/

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What does palisades mean?

noun

  1. plural of palisade

verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of palisade

proper noun

  1. A line of steep cliffs along the western bank of the Hudson River in New Jersey.
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proper noun

  1. A group of peaks in the central part of the Sierra Nevada, California.
  2. A mountain range of Napa County, California.
  3. Ellipsis of Pacific Palisades: a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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IPA pronunciation

/palɪseɪdz/

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The wide river lay before him, flanked by a precipitous wall of cliffs which he knew instantly must be the Palisades.
Harold FredericThe Damnation of Theron WareProject Gutenberg ebook #133
It is surrounded, as we see, by a row of palisades, and contains seventeen joint tenement houses, besides the council house.
Emory Adams AllenThe Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished RacesProject Gutenberg ebook #2873
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Every room on the west front looked across a lawn to the beginning of the avenue immediately beyond tall iron palisades and gates.
Jane AustenMansfield ParkProject Gutenberg ebook #141
The streets were almost deserted, except in the vicinity of the temple, which they only reached after having traversed several quarters surrounded by palisades.
Jules VerneAround the World in Eighty DaysTranslated by George M. (George Makepeace) TowleProject Gutenberg ebook #103
The Saxon architect had exhausted his art in rendering the main keep defensible, and there was no other circumvallation than a rude barrier of palisades.
Walter ScottIvanhoe: A RomanceProject Gutenberg ebook #82