The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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There were a few huts at Barbacoas, for the place was of some small importance.
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
About noon they staggered in to Barbacoas, now a station on the Isthmian Railway.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield
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
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
