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Barbera

American  
[bahr-bair-uh, bahr-be-rah] / bɑrˈbɛər ə, bɑrˈbɛ rɑ /

noun

  1. a red wine grape grown primarily in the Piedmont region of Italy and the Central Valley of California.

  2. a dry red wine produced from this grape.


Barbera British  
/ baːˈbeɪrə /

noun

  1. Joseph. See Hanna

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“This market can fall a lot before anybody can stand up and say, ‘God, do they look cheap,” Barbera said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

As the Duke, René Barbera, a light and agreeably lyric tenor, goes his own way.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2025

Tomer Zvulun’s staging of Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” which premiered at the 2019 Houston Grand Opera, opens May 31, 2025, with Quinn Kelsey, Rosa Feola in her company debut and René Barbera.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2024

However, Barbera said the strike could have had a much bigger impact.

From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2023

Besides the poems published in the complete Venice edition of 1762, several other pieces appeared for the first time in the small Florence edition brought out by Barbera in 1864.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various