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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See barracan.

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Examples

  • The baracan is quickly shed and the fez, if the picker is rich enough to possess one, is discarded for an esparto hat with rim of mammoth proportions.

    Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

  • By four o'clock in the morning he is at work, his heavy woollen baracan, or blanket, wrapped tightly about him, for the air is not only chilly but almost freezing cold.

    Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

  • And the striped white gauze baracan that bound her,

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • And the striped white gauze baracan that bound her,

    Don Juan George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • The dress consisted, as you know, of shoes of polished leather, with large silver buckles, fine cotton stockings, black nether garments of serge, and a coat of green baracan with gold buttons.

    Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790

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