fortilage

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ)tilidʒ/

Noun

fortilage (plural fortilages)

(obsolete) A little fort; a blockhouse.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Yet was the fence thereof but weake and thin ;
  Nought feard theyr force that fortilage to win

References

“fortilage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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