fortilage
English edit
Etymology edit
Variant (influenced by -age) of fortalice, borrowed from Latin fortalitia. Doublet of fortress.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fortilage (plural fortilages)
- (obsolete) A little fort; a blockhouse.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Yet was the fence thereof but weake and thin ;
Nought feard theyr force that fortilage to win
References edit
- “fortilage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.