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Bailey

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Bailey ♂, ♀ Transferred use of the surname, which has various origins. Most commonly it was an occupational name for a bailiff or administrative official; in other cases it was a local name for someone who lived near a bailey, i.e. a city fortification; in others it may be a local name from Bailey in Lancashire, which gets its name from Old English bēg ‘berry’ + lēah ‘wood, clearing’. In the United States this is now more popular as a girl's name than a boy's name, though the reverse is true in Britain.

Variants: Bailie, Baily, Bailee, Baileigh; Baylie, Baylee, Bayley, Bayleigh.

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bailey

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | | Copyright

bailey.
1. External wall or defences surrounding a keep or motte of a medieval castle.

2. Area between the circuits of walls or defences of a castle, also called a ward, or any court within the walls, hence outer bailey or inner bailey.

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bailey

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

bailey the outer wall of a castle and a court enclosed by it. Recorded from Middle English, the word probably comes from Old French baile ‘palisade, enclosure’.

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bailey

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

bai·ley / ˈbālē/ • n. (pl. -leys) the outer wall of a castle. ∎ a court enclosed by this.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

bailey •belly, Botticelli, casus belli, Corelli, Delhi, deli, Ellie, Grappelli, jelly, Kelly, lamellae, Machiavelli, Mahaweli, nelly, Schiaparelli, Shelley, shelly, smelly, tagliatelle, telly, Torricelli, vermicelli, welly, Zeffirelli •trebly •assembly, trembly •deadly, Hedley, medley, redly •friendly • freckly •cleanly, eco-friendly, user-friendly •heavenly • fleshly • wetly • directly •Bentley • deathly •Lesley, Leslie, Presley, Wesley •yellow-belly • underbelly •bailey, bailie, capercaillie, Cayley, ceilidh, daily, Daley, Daly, Disraeli, Eilidh, feyly, gaily, Haley, Hayley, Israeli, Rayleigh, scaly, shaly, ukulele •ably • ungainly • maidenly • shapely •stately • saintly • paisley • Ainsley •comradely

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