单词 | barracan |
释义 | † ˈbarracan Obs. (exc. as alien.) Also 9 baracan. [a. F. barracan, baragant (Cotgr.), mod. bouracan (= Pr. barracan, It. baracane, Sp. barragan, Pg. barregana), a. Arab. barrakān, or burrukān (Dozy), camlet, a cloak of camlet, f. Pers. barak ‘a blanket or garment of camel's hair.’] A fabric: orig. coarse camlet; still in Spain ‘a sort of water-proof cloth of coarse wool or goat's hair,’ also ‘the name of a coarse black woollen garment still used in Morocco’ (Marsh). Vaguely employed by European writers (see Du Cange barracanus): in some passages taken as ‘a fine cloth of silk or other delicate material.’ See also barragan.
1638Lanc. Wills III. 206 My petticoate of barracan. 1821Byron Juan iii. lxx, The striped white gauze baracan that bound her. |

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