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Barbe

Barbe (FR) short form of the name Barbara, which signifies »foreign woman« feminized version of Latin barbarus. Originally, the Greeks thought that the chatter of foreign peoples was no more comprehensible than the nonsense syllables »bar-bar.« (Ronsard)

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