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Definition of Barracan
1. n. A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.
Definition of Barracan
1. Noun. A thick, strong material, somewhat like camlet, formerly used for outer garments in the Levant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Barracan
1. a strong fabric [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barracan
Literary usage of Barracan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Perhaps the same as barracan, explained by the dictionaries a coarse kind of camlet.
.... barracan ..."
2. A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa, in the Years 1818, 19, and 20 by George Francis Lyon (1821)
"A large cloak, having a hood, and no sleeves, and composed of closely and well-woven
wool without a seam, is used in rainy or cold weather over the barracan ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1833)
"He generally wore light-coloured barracan clothes. ... On the following Saturday
witness saw prisoner in light-coloured barracan clothes. ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1833)
"He generally wore light-coloured barracan clothes. ... On the following Saturday
witness saw prisoner in light-coloured barracan clothes. ..."
5. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa: In the by Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney, Abraham V. Salamé, Robert Brown, Carl Dietrich Eberhard König (1826)
"... a transparent white silk barracan was thrown lightly over this, ... and the
same girdle which confines their barracan contains also two long pistols. ..."
6. Tripoli the Mysterious by Mabel Loomis Todd (1912)
"Stepping between, she seated herself in the basket facing the mirror, her attendants
adjusting the barracan for her greater comfort, and, once seated, ..."
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