barba

American  

[bahr-buh] / ˈbɑr bə /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. the beard.

2. a hair of the head.

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Etymology

Origin of barba

< New Latin, Latin: beard

Example Sentences

The island was reputedly named after the hairy tendrils of its banyan trees: barba dos is Portuguese for "double-bearded".

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2012

You could have judged at once how he would shave his neighbours, when you saw the celerity, the completeness with which he shaved himself,—a forestroke and a backstroke, and /tondenti barba cadebat/.

From My Novel — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Lettera di Hieronymo Bon a suo barba, a di 5 Dec." which contains the following: "It is not certainly known whether the Pope died of poison or not.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)

They swear per Bacco perpetually in common discourse; and once I saw a gentleman in the heat of conversation blush at the recollection that he had said barba Fove, where he meant God Almighty.

From Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I by Piozzi, Hester Lynch

You could have judged at once how he would shave his neighbours, when you saw the celerity, the completeness with which he shaved himself,—a forestroke and a backstroke, and tondenti barba cadebat.

From My Novel — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron