barbaresque

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English

Etymology

From French barbaresque. See -esque.

Adjective

barbaresque (comparative more barbaresque, superlative most barbaresque)

  1. barbaric in form or style
    • 1831, Thomas De Quincey, “Dr. Parr and his Contemporaries”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
      His architecture was barbaresque

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “barbaresque”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

barbaresque (plural barbaresques)

  1. (relational) Barbary

Noun

barbaresque m (plural barbaresques)

  1. Barbary pirate

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