palissade

Borrowed from French palissade, from Old French, probably from Old Occitan palissada.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.liˈsaː.də/, /ˌpaː.lɪˈsaː.də/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧lis‧sa‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

palissade f (plural palissaden or palissades)

1. palisade, fence made of wooden stakes

From palis +‎ -ade, or from Old French, borrowed from Old Occitan palissada. Ultimately from a derivative of Latin palus.

palissade f (plural palissades)

1. fence, palisade
2. stockade

• “palissade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).