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They were in court dress, with trains, all wearing, according to etiquette, uniform coiffures of lace passed through the hair (what they called barbes), and which fell about their necks and shoulders, conscientiously decolletes.
The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X Arthur L��on Imbert de Saint-Amand 1867
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While the kids rode the scaled-down manèges, including the autos tamponneuses and the chenille which shot out a bonbon-scented cloud and ate barbes à papa and crêpes with Nutella, we talked about tout et rien and watched the villagers stroll by.
Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007
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Where is the idea that your partner –your REAL lover-is lost at Wagram, barbes wherever, working in a terrible hierarchy de-humanised, alienated, economically-castrated and lacking romantic input from you too?
confetti 2006
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Their Horses are barbed on the brest, with barbes of gold.
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Where ye see this figure of Twynnes twise vsed, once when he said _horses and barbes_ for barbd horses: againe when he saith with _venim_ and with
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Panthea, had made of her treasure, a curate and helmet of golde, and likewyse his vambraces, and had furnished the horses of the chariot with brasen barbes.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Pendentes, wherein he had plentie of wagons, chariots and Elephantes with towers, his bande of horsemen glittered gloriouslie, with golden bridles, trappers, barbes, and such like.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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The barbes, indeed, possessed a house in each of the cities of Florence, Genoa, and Venice.
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These pastors being trained and set apart by the barbes for the work of the ministry were named by the synod for their special sphere of labour.
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