barricade

IPA: bˈærʌkeɪd

A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
(figuratively, in the plural) A place of confrontation.
(figuratively) At live music concerts with a standing “pit” section, refers to standing physically right next to or in front of the barricade protecting the stage, thus being the closest audience members to the performing act.

Examples of "barricade" in Sentences

The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop was the dungeon.
But the problem on either side of the barricade is always content.
In the barricade is a closet, click on the bottomright of it to close up.
He got close to the police barricade, which is just a few hundred yards from the Dirksen Senate Building.
Beyond the barricade was a little meadow, shoulder deep in a curious grass with bristly heads which grew very thickly.
An avalanche had dropped there; the barricade was the debris of the torn cliffs, their dust, their pebbles, their boulders.
Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was the same as this Fauchelevent in flesh and blood, sitting so gravely beside
The barricade was a more difficult matter, as it had to be made full in front of the enemy's fire; but it was contrived with wonderful coolness and rapidity, the civilians about eagerly bringing stones.
Each barricade is an investigation of both fortification and subversion; designing for the defense of each checkpoint, while simultaneously attempting to undermine it’s perceived raison d'être through a means of confrontation, provocation, or absurdism.