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▪ I. † barbet1 Obs.
[a. F. barbette, OF. barbete, dim. of barbe beard.]
1. A small beard or (?) barbel. rare.
1606Holland Sueton. 114 marg., Being skaly and having a couple of barbets.
2. = barb n.1 3.
c1320Pol. Songs. 154 The bout and the barbet wyth frountel shule feȝe.
▪ II. barbet2|ˈbɑːbɪt|
[a. F. barbet, prob. OF. barbet ppl. adj. = barbu ‘bearded.’]
1. A little dog with long curly hair, a poodle.
1780Coxe Russ. Disc. 236 Hounds, grey-hounds, barbets. 1787Beckford Italy (1834) II. 297 Fleeces..as silky as the hair of a barbet. 1801Hel. Williams Sk. Fr. Rep. II. xxxvi, Amidst those piles of corpses..was a little barbet-dog.
†2. A name given by Reaumur and others to a worm covered with tufts of white filaments, which feeds on aphides. Obs.
1753in Chambers Cycl. Supp.
3. A family of birds, found in warm countries, distinguished by a short conical bill, with tufts of bristles at its base. (In F., barbu.)
1824W. J. Burchell Trav. I. 318 Little noisy barbet, which the Hottentots call Hout Kapper (wood cutter). 1880Wallace Isl. Life ii. 27 Barbets are gaily-coloured fruit-eating birds. |