barba

[ bahr-buh ]

/ ˈbɑr bə /

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noun Medicine/Medical.

the beard.

a hair of the head.

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Origin of barba

<New Latin, Latin: beard

I suspect that since lunch was my treat, Barba took me to his favorite restaurant.
Cocaine, Politicians and Wives: Inside the World’s Most Bizarre Prison|Jason Batansky|October 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
One of them fetched Manuel, nicknamed Barba (Spanish for beard), who was, of course, clean shaven.
Cocaine, Politicians and Wives: Inside the World’s Most Bizarre Prison|Jason Batansky|October 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Barba offered me a line of cocaine as we sat on his bunk bed covered by posters of musicians and half-naked women.
Cocaine, Politicians and Wives: Inside the World’s Most Bizarre Prison|Jason Batansky|October 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“We are going to fight like hell to win—with or without the national Democrats,” Barba says.
The Dems' Cold Cash Calculus|Samuel P. Jacobs|September 8, 2010|DAILY BEAST

His brother Lawrence having fallen ill of consumption, Washington went with him to Barba-dos, where he had an attack of smallpox.
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies|H. A. (Hlne Adeline) Guerber
The first who wrote upon the therapy of cinchona was Barba, a Spanish physician, whose work was printed in Seville in 1642.
An Epitome of the History of Medicine|Roswell Park
At Barba del Puerco, the ground being unfit for cavalry, the Thirty-sixth took our place, and pressed them hotly home.
Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2)|Charles Lever
Pedicellus flosculorum sterilium infra flosculos barba annulari cinctus.
Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, Part III (the Text Being Chapters XXVIII-XXXIII of the London Edition, 1843, and the Appendix a Combination of the Appendices of the London and German [Coblentz, 1839] Editions)|Maximilian, Prinz von Wied
Footnote 107: Barba—a title of respect; in the Vaudois dialect literally signifying an uncle.
The Huguenots in France|Samuel Smiles.