barba
Americannoun
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the beard.
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a hair of the head.
Etymology
Origin of barba
< New Latin, Latin: beard
Example Sentences
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The island was reputedly named after the hairy tendrils of its banyan trees: barba dos is Portuguese for "double-bearded".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2012
You could have judged at once how he would shave his neighbours, when you saw the celerity, the completeness with which he shaved himself,—a forestroke and a backstroke, and tondenti barba cadebat.
From My Novel — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
K. Manoel de Mello gives a fairer estimate in the witty phrase, "Chronista antigo, tão candido de penna, como de barba."
From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. I by Azurara, Gomes Eannes de
Another singular tree noticed was a tree of the barberry family known among the Spanish-Americans as barba de tigre, or “tiger's beard.”
From Popular Adventure Tales by Reid, Mayne
You could have judged at once how he would shave his neighbours, when you saw the celerity, the completeness with which he shaved himself,—a forestroke and a backstroke, and /tondenti barba cadebat/.
From My Novel — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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