barabara
[bahr-uh-bahr-uh]
- an Alaskan or north Siberian semisubterranean house built of sod or turf.
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Origin of barabara
1865–70, Americanism; < dialectal Russian barabóra; further origin uncertain
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He is equally at ease in the barabara and in the palace-like homes of the rich when he visits the large cities of the world.
AlaskaElla Higginson
They camped in a barabara where white men had slept a few nights before, and heard their own language spoken by native tongues.