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palisades
/palɪseɪdz/
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What does palisades mean?
noun
- plural of palisade
verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of palisade
proper noun
- A line of steep cliffs along the western bank of the Hudson River in New Jersey.
More meanings (3)
proper noun
- A group of peaks in the central part of the Sierra Nevada, California.
- A mountain range of Napa County, California.
- 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.
It is surrounded, as we see, by a row of palisades, and contains seventeen joint tenement houses, besides the council house.
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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.
The streets were almost deserted, except in the vicinity of the temple, which they only reached after having traversed several quarters surrounded by palisades.
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.