Barca
noun
an ancient Carthaginian family to which Hamilcar, Hasdrubal, and Hannibal belonged.
Barcan
-
a word derived from
Barca.
Example Sentences
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As Barcan has written, we no longer gather our magical ingredients from the fields but from shops.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2021
In February the festival's contribution to folk music was recognized with a BBC Radio 2 Good Tradition Award, collected by Barcan and Joan Woollard, Ken's widow, at a ceremony in the Royal Albert Hall.
From Reuters ● Jul. 30, 2014
Barcan took up the baton after the death of local firefighter Ken Woollard, who would organize the early festivals from a public phone box outside Cambridge Fire Station.
From Reuters ● Jul. 30, 2014
Her father was a typesetter at The Jewish Daily Forward; a bust of the Barcan household saint, the labor leader Eugene V. Debs, presided over the living room.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2012
"O! glorious! mother where am I to go? to the Barcan desert, or to the Arctic Ocean?"
From Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick by Mrs. William T. Savage
