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Barrie

[bar-ee]
noun
  1. Sir James M(atthew),1860–1937, Scottish novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
  2. a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, NW of Toronto.
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Examples from the Web for barrie

Historical Examples of barrie

  • I have read that it is, somewhere—in one of Barrie's yarns, I think.

    The Rise of Roscoe Paine

    Joseph C. Lincoln

  • Mr. Barrie has no such spiritual obsession as besets his elder.

    My Contemporaries In Fiction

    David Christie Murray

  • "I will run down to Mrs. Barrie's," I said, after long thinking.

    St. Cuthbert's

    Robert E. Knowles

  • I suddenly exclaimed, as we were turning into Mrs. Barrie's house.

    St. Cuthbert's

    Robert E. Knowles

  • We reached Barrie safely that night, and slept at the Queen's Arms.

    Canada and the Canadians

    Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle

British Dictionary definitions for barrie

barrie

adjective
  1. Scot dialect very good; attractive

Word Origin for barrie

from Romany

Barrie

noun
  1. Sir James Matthew . 1860–1937, Scottish dramatist and novelist, noted particularly for his popular children's play Peter Pan (1904)
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