fortilage

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/ˈfɔː(ɹ)tilidʒ/

noun

A little fort; a blockhouse.

OriginLatin fortalitia →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounfortilage (plural fortilages)

plural fortilages

  1. obsoleteA little fort; a blockhouse.

    Yet was the fence thereof but weake and thin ; Nought feard theyr force that fortilage to win

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinfortalitia
  2. Englishfortilage

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

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fortilage,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fortilage.

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