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fortilage

/ˈfɔː(ɹ)tilidʒ/

fortilage noun: a little fort; a blockhouse.

Noun

fortilage (plural fortilages)

  1. (obsolete) A little fort; a blockhouse.
    • Yet was the fence thereof but weake and thin ;
      Nought feard theyr force that fortilage to win1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of fortilage

pluralfortilages

Origin of fortilage

Variant (influenced by -age) of fortalice, borrowed from Latin fortalitia. Doublet of fortress.

Questions about fortilage

What does fortilage mean?
Fortilage means a little fort; a blockhouse.
What part of speech is fortilage?
Fortilage is a noun.
How do you pronounce fortilage?
Fortilage is pronounced /ˈfɔː(ɹ)tilidʒ/.
What is the plural of fortilage?
The plural of fortilage is fortilages.

Words near fortilage in the dictionary

  1. fortifieth
  2. fortify
  3. fortifying
  4. fortifyingly
  5. fortifyings
  6. fortilage
  7. fortilages
  8. fortilice
  9. fortilices
  10. fortimicin
  11. fortimicins

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