barba

[ bahr-buh ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.

1. the beard.
2. a hair of the head.

Word History and Origins

Origin of barba¹

< New Latin, Latin: beard

Example Sentences

Clockwise from top left, at Outer Limits Tattoo and Museum in Long Beach: veteran tattoo artist Kari Barba, tattoo designs on display, a jacket from Bert Grimm’s Famous Tattoo Studio and a display case of flash and tools.

From Los Angeles Times

Inside Outer Limits, founder and tattoo artist Kari Barba, 64, eagerly unwrapped a copy of the book.

From Los Angeles Times

Barba, a celebrated tattoo artist and industry pioneer who runs a second tattoo location in Costa Mesa, said she bought the Long Beach space 20 years ago because “I was really hurt by the idea that the history of the building would be lost.”

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Barba led Lerew and a visitor through the restored rooms; the tables and modern tools now in use; the antique tools; the stencils of anchors, hearts and dragons; the old photos of inked sailors at the long-gone Pike amusement park; a hand-painted window that workers found hidden in a wall; and, in one corner, a mysterious covered vat.

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So Barba and Lerew stepped to the vat and uncovered it, revealing a glutinous stew of rags and vaseline, once integral to the tattoo process; the stew’s age and precise contents are uncertain.

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