Barbara

[bahr-bruh, -ber-uh]

noun

1. a first name: from a Greek word meaning “foreign, exotic.”

Example Sentences

Months before the fire, she and her mother Barbara Werstein created Bavarian decor for the lodge’s facade — faux shutters, flower boxes and door and window trim.

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Even real estate mogul and “Shark Tank” shark Barbara Corcoran flexed her muscles with the post, “How it feels waking up in Group 7.”

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After the soil was added this summer, workers seeded the ground with a cover crop of native plants particularly good at kick-starting that fungi: Santa Barbara milk vetch, golden yarrow, California poppy and giant wild rye.

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Then he and his team helped Nadia Gonzalez of Puente Strategies, the project’s media coordinator, lay down plywood boards to minimize soil compaction during the ceremony, while Rock, Samaniego, Campos and junior landscape designer Makala Gibson dug holes for the plants chosen for the ceremony: bush sunflower, California fuchsia, more Santa Barbara milk vetch, California aster and purple needle grass.

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The little Santa Barbara cafe was going through more than four pounds of the Japanese tea on its busiest days when it started getting tough to get a reliable supply.

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