Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A barber's shop.
- noun The occupation or craft of a barber.
- noun See
barberry .
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Examples
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You come across with this, sickening sweet niceness laced with barbery jagged remarks consistently.
Page 5 2002
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His name was originally Colbath, and he was reputed to have been born under a barbery - bush in one of the green lanes of New Hampshire.
Cambridge Sketches Frank Preston Stearns 1881
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The following enactment was in force: "No person using any shaving or barbery in London shall occupy any surgery, letting of blood, or other matter, except of drawing teeth."
At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History William Andrews 1878
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Watty el Bordj affords excellent pasturage; in many spots it is overgrown with trees, mostly oaks, and the barbery is also very frequent.
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Watty el Bordj affords excellent pasturage; in many spots it is overgrown with trees, mostly oaks, and the barbery is also very frequent.
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Watty el Bordj affords excellent pasturage; in many spots it is overgrown with trees, mostly oaks, and the barbery is also very frequent.
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land John Lewis Burckhardt 1800
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Gone are the days of barbery ... these animals are culled humanely in spite of all the bad press that states otherwise.
CTV News RSS Feed 2009
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Gone are the days of barbery ... these animals are culled humanely in spite of all the bad press that states otherwise.
CTV News RSS Feed 2009
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Gone are the days of barbery ... these animals are culled humanely in spite of all the bad press that states otherwise.
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Gone are the days of barbery ... these animals are culled humanely in spite of all the bad press that states otherwise.
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