barbara

A female given name from Latin.

My mother had a maid call'd Barbara; / She was in love, and he she lov'd prov'd mad / And did forsake her; […]

All in the merrye month of May / When greene buds they were swellin / Yong Jemmye Grove on his death-bed lay / For love of Barbara Allen.

A syllogism in which all three propositions are of the form "All X are Y" or "X is a Y".

If you see a girl you like, prove it to her by Barbara and Celarent all the way to Fresison or whatever the logician's Omega is — I forget.

A syllogism in which all three propositions are of the form "All X are Y" or "X is a Y".