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单词 bailey
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baileyn.

Brit. /ˈbeɪli/, U.S. /ˈbeɪli/
Forms: Middle English baili, Middle English bayly, baylie, baylye, bailye, bailly, baly, Middle English baillie, Middle English–1500s baily, bailie, 1800s bailey.
Etymology: a Middle English variant of bayle, bail n.3: possibly from the medieval Latin form balium , ballium ; compare Vetus Ballium = Old Bailey, Du Cange. Not in French. It coincides in its spellings with baillie n., with which it was probably confused.
1. The external wall enclosing the outer court, and forming the first line of defence, of a feudal castle; and, in a wider sense, any of the circuits of walls or defences which surrounded the keep.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > outer wall of castle
castle-wallc1175
bailc1320
baileya1400
ballium1773
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10034 Þere stonden þre bailyes wiþoute þat wel kepen þat castel From arwe shet & quarel.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 10023 Þe midmast bailly of þe þre Bitokeneþ wel hir chastite..Name of baily hit haþ for þi For hit hit helde euer in baily [Gött. bayly].
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 1082 As quen I blusched vpon þat baly, So ferly þer-of-watz þe falure.
1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. i. 16 The more recent habitation reared within its enclosures or baileys.
2. In later writers: The outer court or base court of a feudal castle; also, either of the two (or three courts) formed by the spaces between the circuits of walls or defences. Hence outer bailey, inner bailey.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [noun] > court of castle
ward1297
bailc1320
utterwardc1450
utter-court1530
bailey1840
1840 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 3) 22 Bailey..was a name given to the courts of a castle formed by the spaces between the circuits of walls or defences which surrounded the keep.
1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. i. 17 The royal apartments were not in the keep, but in the court-yard, or bailey.
1862 Luck of Ladysmede I. 93 The entrance-gate..led into a narrow outer bailey.
3. (Retained in proper names: e.g. the Old Bailey in London, the seat of the Central Criminal Court, so called from the ancient bailey or ballium of the city wall between Lud Gate and New Gate, within which it was situated.)
ΚΠ
1570 Piththy Note to Papists (Collier) 15 The Draile, wheron he lay fast bound in midst olde baily street.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1357/1 At a sessions holden in the iustice hall in the old bailie of London.
1865 Morning Star 5 July The phrase, ‘Old Bailey style,’ is an ordinary façon de parler, and is well understood to mean..a certain license of vituperation which has been supposed, rightly or wrongly, to characterise its proceedings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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