The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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On the fifth day they reached Barbacoas; but still no place presented to their view either man, animal, or any kind of provisions whatever.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by John Rudd
After resting some days in the old capital of Quito, our travellers proceeded to the small port of Barbacoas, on the west coast of Equador; and thence took passage for Panama.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Johann Baptist Zwecker
An ambush had been laid at Barbacoas, but the Spaniards had left the place, after sweeping it as bare as Torna Munni.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield
Why may there not be an alluvial auriferous soil to the east of the Cordilleras, as there is to the west, in the Sonoro, at Choco, and at Barbacoas?
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
The Peruvians obtained many emeralds from the barren district of Atacama, and in the times of the Conquest there were quarries on the River of Emeralds near Barbacoas.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 by Various
