Other forms: barricades, barricaded, barricading
A barricade is a hasty barrier put up to block a way. Furniture across a door, or cars across a street.
The improvised quality is essential, since a barricade is thrown together from whatever is available, which is what separates it from a wall or a fence. Revolutions supply the classic image, and manning the barricades is a fixed phrase for taking up a cause. As a verb it is often reflexive, so barricading yourself in a room means blocking the door from inside. The word came from French, from barrels used for the purpose.
French
barricade
English, today
barricade
The noun is borrowed from French barricade, or an assimilation of the earlier barricado to the French form. The verb is from the noun or French barricader.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Man Called Ove, A Song of Ice and Fire
First appears in chapter 29 of A Man Called Ove.
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