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noun, masculine

adarve

/aˈdaɾbe/

noun, masculine/aˈdaɾbe/plural: adarves

defense wall; wall walk, allure (protected pathway on a wall of a city or castle); dead end; alley to people's housing (in medieval Muslim cities, closed at night)

Synonyms: callejón sin salida

Inherited from Old Spanish adarve, adarbe, from Andalusian Arabic الدَّرْب (ad-dárb), from Arabic دَرْب (darb, “path, pass, way”).