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a wall built by the desperate to stop the inevitable, sometimes succeeding gloriously.
means A makeshift barrier thrown up across a street or doorway to block passage or defend a position, especially in protest or revolt.
from From French barricade, born of barrique, a barrel — because the original barricades were exactly that: wine and earth-filled casks rolled into the street and stacked to stop an advance. The word's deepest root is the Spanish barrica (cask), itself likely from a Romance word for a barrel's bulging shape. So the modern symbol of revolution began, fittingly, as empty wine barrels.
- word origin
- From French barriques, meaning barrels stuffed with dirt.
- paris specialty
- Parisians revolted so often, streets were redesigned to prevent them.
- haussmann's fix
- Wide boulevards built specifically to make barricades useless.
- les mis
- Hugo's famous barricade was based on a real 1832 uprising.
- build time
- A practiced mob could erect one in minutes.
paris june rebellion barricade — 1832 uprising in paris where revolutionaries built street barricades, immortalized in les misérables
hong kong protest barricades — 2019-2020 hong kong demonstrations where activists constructed elaborate barricades across streets in admiralty and other districts
warsaw ghetto barricade — 1943 jewish uprising where residents built barricades to resist nazi deportations in warsaw