Ballium

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

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bailey

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"[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."

Etymology

From Medieval Latin ballium.

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