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barberly
adj 1adv 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
alternate, wounded
VERB + BARBERLY
continued, dress, shaved
BARBERLY + NOUN
feelings, ministrations, stripes
PREP.
in
ADV.
freshly
Definitions
adj
1
Resembling or characteristic of a barber.
Beneath her sweater one might have caught glimpses of a black-and- white dress, in alternate, barberly stripes which commanded the eye.
As he tended the 19 knights who lay about him, not only did Gorley have sympathy for their burns and blisters, but his barberly feelings were wounded by their appearance. Gorley could scarcely bear to look: Half a beard was singed away here... a third of a moustache, there... and, in a few cases, whole heads of hair had been singed to ugly stubble.
adv
1
In the manner of a barber.
If sheepe or thy lamb, fall a wrigling with taile, / go by & by searche it, whiles help may preuaile. / That barberlye handled, I dare thee assure: / cast dust in his arse, thou hast finisht thy cure.
He was weighted with full cartridge-belt and pistol, and had the appearance of having been out of the saddle but a little while, although he was freshly shaved and barberly perfumed.
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Beneath her sweater one might have caught glimpses of a black-and- white dress, in alternate, barberly stripes which commanded the eye.
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As he tended the 19 knights who lay about him, not only did Gorley have sympathy for their burns and blisters, but his barberly feelings were wounded by their appearance. Gorley could scarcely bear to
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He continued his barberly ministrations. "Those of us who are scheduled to compete in the various competitive classes, you see, can officially get into the convention center and begin assembling our d
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If sheepe or thy lamb, fall a wrigling with taile, / go by & by searche it, whiles help may preuaile. / That barberlye handled, I dare thee assure: / cast dust in his arse, thou hast finisht thy cure.
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He was weighted with full cartridge-belt and pistol, and had the appearance of having been out of the saddle but a little while, although he was freshly shaved and barberly perfumed.
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