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Definition of Barracans
1. barracan [n] - See also: barracan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barracans
Literary usage of Barracans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture by Leo Wiener (1917)
"... while barracans were still lighter and were figured at 35 to the ... vers d'Arras
pay the same duty as Beauvais barracans.3 It is not clear that these ..."
2. Tripoli the Mysterious by Mabel Loomis Todd (1912)
"Jewish ladies were collecting in leisurely style, dressed in every imaginable
colour, but the effect softened and poeticized by their lovely barracans which ..."
3. The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara by Rosita Torr Forbes (1921)
"If they were younf would not uncover their faces even to me, but, huddled bundles
of voluminous draperies, with a | three barracans of rich dark weaving ..."
4. The Hill of the Graces: A Record of Investigation Among the Trilithons and by Henry Swainson Cowper (1897)
"Here, in their little square boxes, sit the Arab vendors of barracans and ...
Here the barracans made in the Tripoli looms are brought by the producer, ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1818)
"... hides, dates, barracans, nitre, cotton cloth, and great quantities of a fruit
resembling coft'ee. Q. What is the greatest length of time the caravan is ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1821)
"Such was the dryness of the air, also, that the blankets and barracans emitted
electric sparks. ..."
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