Meanings
nounballium (plural balliums or ballia)
plural balliums · plural ballia
- Synonym of bailey (“fortification”).
[T]he southern court of the ballium had become a flower-garden, with quaint terraces, statues, knots of flowers, clipped yews and hollies, and all the pedantries of the topiarian art.
1855, Charles Kingsley, “The True and Tragical History of Mr. John Oxenham of Plymouth”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 209Synonyms: bailey
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of bailey (“fortification”).
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Origin
- Medieval Latinballium
- Englishballium
From Medieval Latin ballium.
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