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barber shop

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bar⋅ber⋅shop

[bahr-ber-shop]
–noun
1. Also called, especially British, barber's shop. the place of business of a barber.
2. the singing of four-part harmony in barbershop style or the music sung in this style.
–adjective
3. specializing in the unaccompanied part-singing of popular songs in which four voices move in close, highly chromatic harmony: a barbershop quartet.
4. characteristic of such part-singing.

Origin:
1570–80; barber + shop
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