fortilage

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ)tilidʒ/

Noun

fortilage (plural fortilages)

1. (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

• “fortilage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.