释义 |
baileybai‧ley /ˈbeɪli/ noun [countable] baileyOrigin: 1200-1300 Old French baille, balie ‘fence, bailey’ - And how dared he leave her standing out here in the bailey like a ... like a serf?
- Builth Castle Formidable earthworks remains of a substantial motte and bailey.
- He gathered his cloak and entered the bailey, a calmer place than the previous day.
- In the outer bailey an officer was shouting orders about a gate being oiled.
- Outside this was a citadel, fortified like the inner bailey, but containing a greater number of buildings.
- There was an inner bailey containing the buildings of greatest importance.
- This is a very special but long-abandoned eighteenth-century garden, laid out on the remains of a medieval motte and bailey castle.
- We wandered back into the freezing bailey.
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