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barre
1[ bahr ]
noun
- a handrail placed at hip height, used by a dancer to maintain balance during practice.
barré
2[ bah-rey ]
noun
- Textiles. a pattern of stripes or bands of color extending across the warp in woven and knitted fabrics.
- Textiles. a streak in the filling direction when one or more picks are of a color different from that of adjacent picks.
- Music. a technique of playing a chord on a stringed instrument by laying a finger across the strings at a particular fret, raising their pitch.
barre
1/ bar /
noun
- a rail at hip height used for ballet practice and leg exercises
barré
2/ ˈbæreɪ /
noun
- the act of laying the index finger over some or all of the strings of a guitar, lute, or similar instrument, so that the pitch of each stopped string is simultaneously raised Compare capo 1
- the playing of chords in this manner
verb
- to execute (chords) in this manner
adverb
- by using the barré
Word History and Origins
Origin of barre1
Word History and Origins
Origin of barre1
Origin of barre2
Example Sentences
The dancer—and Balanchine's wife and muse—broke barriers for Native Americans at the barre and graced stages all over the world.
In 1999, I was a junior in high school, and a big story in the small town of Barre, Vermont, as a suspected school shooter.
Like with so many “weird kids,” I left most of my nasty cycle behind when I left Barre to go to college.
Its chapter on HPV vaccines examines 13 kinds of reported problems, from multiple sclerosis to Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Colonel Barre, so noted in the British parliament as an opponent to the American war, died.
They located near one of the forts, upon a spot of ground which is at present covered by the city of Wilkes-Barre.
Between Barre and Montmorency I met, in a hired carriage, four men in black, who saluted me smilingly.
There are several good old houses here: but I must content myself with the mention of one only in the Rue de la Barre.
The last records of conditions in the Wilkes-Barre coal regions confirm the fact of labor scarcity.
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