| 单词 | bailey |
| 释义 | baileyArchitecture, Buildings bai·ley /ˈbeɪli/ noun [countableC] AATBBan open area inside the outer wall of a castle 城堡内之庭院，城堡外庭 Examples from the Corpus bailey• This is a very special but long-abandoned eighteenth-century garden, laid out on the remains of a medieval motte and bailey castle.• Builth Castle Formidable earthworks remains of a substantial motte and bailey.• We wandered back into the freezing bailey.• There was an inner bailey containing the buildings of greatest importance.• Outside this was a citadel, fortified like the inner bailey, but containing a greater number of buildings.• In the outer bailey an officer was shouting orders about a gate being oiled.• He gathered his cloak and entered the bailey, a calmer place than the previous day.• And how dared he leave her standing out here in the bailey like a ... like a serf? (1200-1300) Old French baille, balie “fence, bailey” |
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