barracoon
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of barracoon
1850–55, < Spanish barracón, equivalent to barrac ( a ) hut ( see barrack 1) + -on augmentative suffix
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
These newcomers patrol the coast like abolitionist avengers, superpowering their way through every coffle and barracoon they encounter.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2019
“De barracoon we in ain’ the only slave pen at the place,” he remembers.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2018
Scarcely had we landed when a troop of slaves were seen issuing from the barracoon, and led by their captors down to the beach.
From In the Wilds of Africa by Pearse, Alfred
As was too likely the pirates had set fire to the barracoon on purpose to delay the English; this plan succeeded perfectly.
From The Three Midshipmen by Prout, Victor
This barracoon was a shed built of heavy piles driven down into the earth, lashed together with bamboos, and thatched with palm-leaves.
From The Three Midshipmen by Prout, Victor
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
