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Meanings of outer bailey in English
Russian
форбург Portuguese
bailey exterior 
Usage of outer bailey in English
1
The carpenters had erected a gallery and lists in the outer bailey.
2
A series of banks and ditches, an outer bailey, alert the visitor to its defensive nature.
3
Soldiers were playing dice by the gateway, and horses were stamping and feeding in the outer bailey.
4
Against the west wall of the outer bailey hunkered some forty frowth giants, each twenty feet tall.
5
While his men were doing military exercises in the outer bailey, John had taken to his bee fields.
6
The horses' legs moved through low-lying evening mists as they passed under the portcullis into the outer bailey.
7
Step by step he forced him back, until presently they were free of the wall and into the outer bailey.
8
The trumpet rang out, and the horsemen, breaking from square into column, filed out of the courtyard and across the outer bailey.
9
The keep, the fosse, the inner and outer bailey, the general construction, were much the same in all fortresses of Normandy or Norman Britain.
10
In another hour she was demanding of the porter at the outer bailey Messire Prosper le Gai, in the name of his servant Roy.
11
Still speaking no word the monarch rode to the great gate, crossed the bridge, and entered, and once within the outer bailey, looked about him.
12
The outer baileys are defended by some great towers of massive Norman masonry from which you look all over the town and surrounding country.