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barry

nounadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈbɑː.ɹi//
  • United States//ˈbɑɹ.i//

A field divided transversely into several equal parts, and consisting of two different tinctures interchangeably disposed.

noun

  1. 1

    A field divided transversely into several equal parts, and consisting of two different tinctures interchangeably disposed.

Etymology

From French barré (“striped, barred”).

adjective

  1. 1

    Traversed (transversely) by bars.

  2. 2

    Of a dyed material: having bars or bands of color.

    […] many examples of the degree of coverage of barry nylon with various ranges of dyes are listed […]

Forms

plural
barries
comparative
more barry
superlative
most barry
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).