barbe

American  

[bahrb] / bɑrb /

noun

1. a band or small scarf of lace, worn around the head or neck by women.

2. barb.

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Etymology

Origin of barbe

see origin at barb ¹

Example Sentences

Grilling, influenced by Caribbean barbe, is an essential technique.

From Time Magazine Archive

Page 134—macheloires amended to machoires—"... car si tant ne fait que j’aye la barbe & les dents machoires sans aucune tromperie ne mensonge, ..."

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883

The greater number had no defensive armor; and not a horse was furnished with the leathern barbe with which the knight continued, as in the middle ages, to cover his steed's breast and sides.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn

For centuries, except in a few deliberate literary exercises, the king à la barbe florie has inspired no modern singer—his geste is extinct.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George

My own beard has been described by a French newspaper as une barbe de Charlemagne, a very polite pun, but hers was much fuller. 

From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey