Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A handrail fixed to a wall, as in a dance studio, used by ballet dancers as a support in certain exercises.
- noun A fingering technique used with fretted stringed instruments in which a finger is laid across the fretboard to stop all or several strings at once.
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- noun ballet A
handrail fixed to a wall used forballet exercises.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *barra, of Gaulish origin.]
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Borrowing from French barre.
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