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Barbaresque, a. and n.|bɑːbəˈrɛsk|
[modern a. F. barbaresque (= It. barbaresco) belonging to Barbary; cf. also Pg. barbarisco barbarous. See barbar and -esque, and cf. Barbary.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to Barbary in Africa.
1824Galt Rothelan III. 158 A red Barbaresque night⁓cap. 1881Times 18 Apr. 4/1 That France should not be permitted to increase her Barbaresque possessions.
2. Barbarous in style, esp. in reference to art. [Cf. picturesque.]
1823De Quincey Language (1860) 124 Barbarism..generates its own barbaresque standards of taste. 1857― Sketches Wks. VI. 159 Architecture..barbaresque—rich in decoration, at times colossal in proportions, but unsymmetrical. 1859Masson Brit. Novelists iv. 220 The..outstanding barbaresque and primitive in English society.
B. n. A native of Barbary.
1804T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 21 Our interests against the Barbaresques. 1862Ludlow Hist. U.S. 74 Any [peace] concluded..by a Christian power with the Barbaresques. |