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单词 barracan
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barracann.

Forms: Also 1800s baracan.
Etymology: < French barracan, baragant (Cotgrave), modern bouracan (= Provençal barracan, Italian baracane, Spanish barragan, Portuguese barregana), < Arabic barrakān, or burrukān (Dozy), camlet, a cloak of camlet, < Persian barak ‘a blanket or garment of camel's hair.’
Obsolete (except as alien.)
A fabric: originally coarse camlet; latterly in Spain ‘a sort of water-proof cloth of coarse wool or goat's hair’, also ‘the name of a coarse black woollen garment still used in Morocco’ (Marsh). Vaguely employed by European writers (see Du Cange barracanus): in some passages taken as ‘a fine cloth of silk or other delicate material’. See also barragan n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from choice of fibres > [noun] > camlet > other
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1638 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 206 My petticoate of barracan.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III lxx. 38 The striped white gauze baracan that bound her.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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