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noun fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground
verb surround with a wall in order to fortify
originBorrowed from Middle French palissade, from Old French, from Old Occitan palissada, from palissa (“stake”), probably from pal (“stake”), or possibly from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”) + -ade.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0