Barbary vs Barbara - What's the difference?
barbary | barbara |
The Mediterranean coastal areas of North Africa that were used as a base by pirates in the 16th to 19th centuries.
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* 17th' '''century or before: English folk song: ''Barbara Allen : 1839 version by Thomas Percy:
* 1860 East Lynne . Kessinger Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0192804626 page 29:
* 1922 , The Beautiful and Damned , ISBN 1603035281, page 76:
* 2007 (Marina Lewycka), Two Caravans , Fig Tree, ISBN 9780670916375, page 299:
As an adjective barbary
is barbarian; non-christian.As a verb barbara is
.barbary
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(wikipedia Barbary)Proper noun
(en proper noun)barbara
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(wikipedia Barbara)Alternative forms
* BarbraProper noun
(Barbaras)- My mother had a maid call'd Barbara ; / She was in love, and he she lov'd prov'd mad / And did forsake her; she had a song of 'willow'
- All in the merrye month of May / When greene buds they were swellin / Yong Jemmye Grove on his death-bed lay / For love of Barbara Allen.
- "What do you think they are going to name the baby? Anne; after her and her mamma. So very ugly a name!" "I don't think so," said Mr Carlyle. "It is simple and unpretending. I like it much. Look at the long, pretentious names in our family - Archibald! Cornelia! And yours, too - Barbara'! What a mouthful they all are!" ' Barbara contracted her eyebrows. It was equivalent to saying that he did not like her name.
- "Everybody in the next generation," suggested Dick, "will be named Peter or Barbara' - because at present all piquant literary characters are named Peter or ' Barbara ."
- 'Barbara ?' Barr?baah?rrah. Barbarian woman. Wild. Untamed. An incredibly sexy name.