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‖ Barbe [Fr., ad. It. and Rumansch barba (= med.L. barba, also barbas, barbanus) uncle, lit. ‘the bearded.’] Respectful title given by the Vaudois to their teachers.
1710in Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 16th C. I. iii. 367 The Barbes..have not the courage to own their Doctrine avowedly. 1838G. Faber Inquiry 530 The Barbs who visited them from Apulia. Ibid. 338 Barbes. |