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- palisade[palisade 词源字典]
- palisade: see pale
[palisade etymology, palisade origin, 英语词源] - palisade (n.)
- "a fence of stakes," c. 1600, from Middle French palissade (15c.), from Provençal palissada, from palissa "a stake or paling," from Gallo-Roman *palicea, from Latin palus "stake" (see pale (n.)). Military sense is attested from 1690s. The Palisades, along the Hudson River opposite New York City, so called by 1823.