Palisade - A sturdy wooden fence usually built to enclose a site until a permanent stone wall can be constructed. Palmette - Looped like a palm-leaf. Parados - Low wall in inner side of main wall.
palisade : A timber defensive screen or fence. Palladian window : A Palladian window is a large window which is divided into three parts. The center section is larger than the two side sections, and is usually arched.
PALISADE: A wooden defensive fence. PARAPET: A low wall on the outer side of the main wall, protecting the front of the entry walk. QUADRANGLE: Inner courtyard.
Palisade: (1) A Defensive fence or wall of wooden stakes arranged vertically or obliquely in a row. See valli. (2) To surround or defend with a palisade. (L. palūs, a stake). Pan: The part of a work forming one side of a salient angle.
Pale / Palisade - a vertical stake. A palisade is a fence or obstacle of some kind of wooden stakes or pales, which could be used defensively. Someone not allowed within the defensive circle for any reason was "beyond the pale." ...
Timber palisade used to strengthen earthwork defences Brewhouse building or room where ale was brewed ...
keep Motte-and-bailey: A defensive system consisting of a mound of earth (the motte) with a wooden tower on top, placed within a courtyard (the bailey, also called the ward); Earth mound with wood or stone keep, surrounded by ditched and palisaded ...
The courtyard-like area of ground enclosed by a stone wall or wooden palisade, where the domestic buildings of the castle were. Includes exercise area, parade ground, emergency corral. In a concentric castle, the area between two encircling walls.
The Roman vallum was an earth rampart with stakes or palisades (vallus, stake; Gr. 17Aos, nail) and the Old English word was particularly applied to such earth' walls; for the remains of the Roman walls in Britain see Britain.
1949 - Charles and Ray Eames build the Eames House, also known as Case Study House #8, in Pacific Palisades, CA, USA. 1948 - Pietro Belluschi completes the Equitable Building in Portland, Oregon.
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BaileyAn enclosure defended by a ditch and palisade, usually as part of a motte-and-bailey castle.Balance beam(Canals): Beam projecting horizontally for opening and closing lock gates.
An earth-mound with wood or stone keep, surrounded by ditched and palisade enclosure (or courtyard).
Settlements were generally made either for commerce, as in the case of Fort William, or for religion, as in the case of Saint Marie Among the Hurons. The settlements were surrounded by a vertical pole palisade, ...
See also: House, Castle, Bailey, Architecture, Motte
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