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
Lettera di Hieronymo Bon a suo barba, a di 5 Dec." which contains the following: "It is not certainly known whether the Pope died of poison or not.
From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau
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 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
The crine profuso and barba demissa of the reges crinitos, as the Merovingians were called, are often referred to by ancient chroniclers.
From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett
They swear per Bacco perpetually in common discourse; and once I saw a gentleman in the heat of conversation blush at the recollection that he had said barba Fove, where he meant God Almighty.
From Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I by Hester Lynch Piozzi
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