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barré

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bar⋅ré

[bah-rey]
–noun
1. Textiles. a pattern of stripes or bands of color extending across the warp in woven and knitted fabrics.
2. Textiles. a streak in the filling direction when one or more picks are of a color different from that of adjacent picks.
3. Music. a technique of playing a chord on a stringed instrument by laying a finger across the strings at a particular fret, raising their pitch.

Origin:
< F: lit., barred, ptp. of barrer, deriv. of barre bar 1
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