barye

¹ American  

[bar-ee] / ˈbær i /

noun

1. microbar.

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Barye ² American  

[ba-ree] / baˈri /

noun

1. Antoine Louis 1795–1875, French sculptor and painter.

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barye British  

/ ˈbærɪ /

noun

1. a unit of pressure in the cgs system equal to one dyne per square centimetre. 1 barye is equivalent to 1 microbar

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Etymology

Origin of barye

< French < Greek barýs heavy

Example Sentences

The Pageant chose Angelica’s florid representation from an 1840s bronze by sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye.

From Los Angeles Times

Cinematic melodrama and sculptural romanticism are nowhere to be seen in his picture of Barye’s maiden.

From Los Angeles Times

When you look at Antoine-Louis Barye’s bronze sculpture in an art museum, rarely does the mind turn to the question of who the model was working in the artist’s studio posing for Angelica in the wax or plaster form that would later be cast in enduring metal.

From Los Angeles Times

The park has a reflecting pool, diagonal walkways crisscrossing beneath oak, maple and locust trees, and bronze sculptures, like the 1832 allegory of the French Revolution, “Lion Crushing a Serpent,” by Antoine-Louis Barye.

From New York Times

Here, with regard to the anatomy of animals, we pursue the same method, and the example chosen shall be that of Barye.

From Project Gutenberg