Barre definition

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(ballet) A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises.
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A handrail fixed to a wall, as in a dance studio, used by ballet dancers as a support in certain exercises.
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A fingering technique used with fretted stringed instruments in which a finger is laid across the fretboard to stop all or several strings at once.
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A horizontal handrail held onto while doing ballet exercises.
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Origin of barre

  • French from Old French from Vulgar Latin barra of Gaulish origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French barre.

    From Wiktionary

Barre Sentence Examples

  • The Grand Pont, designed by the cantonal engineer, Adrien Pichard (1790--1841), was built 1839-1844, while the Barre tunnel was pierced 1851-1855 and the bridge of Chauderon was built in 1905.

  • This reform was justified by the religious intolerance of the parlements; by their scandalous trials of Calas, Pierre Paid Sirven (1709-1777), the chevalier de la Barre and the comte de Lally; by the retrograde spirit that had made them suppress the Encyclopaedia in 1759 and condemn Emile in.

  • The Iroquois were assuming a threatening attitude towards the inhabitants, and Frontenac's successor, La Barre, was quite incapable of leading an army against such cunning foes.

  • At the end of a year La Barre was replaced by the marquis de Denonville, a man of ability and courage, who, though he showed some vigour in marching against the western Iroquois tribes, angered rather than intimidated them, and the massacre of Lachine (5th of August 1689) must be regarded as one of the unhappy results of his administration.

  • The intended victim was named Annie Gauthier, of Barre.

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