A variant or archaic spelling of barricado (barricade); a defensive barrier or fortification.
From Spanish 'barricada' with 'em-' prefix added, or a variant of 'barricado.' This shows historical English borrowing from Spanish with uncertain morphological analysis—English speakers weren't sure if 'em-' was part of the root.
Words like 'embarricado' appear in 17th-century English texts and show that early English speakers sometimes misanalyzed borrowed words—they couldn't tell where one morpheme ended and another began, creating variations that eventually standardized as 'barricade.'
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