palisade
palisade.
1. Fence of stakes fixed in the ground, forming an enclosure for defence.
2. Fence of iron railings.
3. Light fence, or trelliswork on which trees and shrubs are trained in espalier fashion.
4. Row of trees or shrubs forming a dense barrier of hedge (palissade in French), either solid, pierced with openings, or with the trunks bare and trimmed, but the upper foliage solid, treated as espalier-work or pleached (intertwined or tangled) to create a solid green barrier.
5. Row of deciduous trees with pleached branches.
1. Fence of stakes fixed in the ground, forming an enclosure for defence.
2. Fence of iron railings.
3. Light fence, or trelliswork on which trees and shrubs are trained in espalier fashion.
4. Row of trees or shrubs forming a dense barrier of hedge (palissade in French), either solid, pierced with openings, or with the trunks bare and trimmed, but the upper foliage solid, treated as espalier-work or pleached (intertwined or tangled) to create a solid green barrier.
5. Row of deciduous trees with pleached branches.
Bibliography
Goulty (1991)
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