barre

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[bahr]

–noun Ballet.

a handrail placed at hip height, used by a dancer to maintain balance during practice.

Also, bar.

Origin:
1945–50

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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barre also bar (bär)

A handrail fixed to a wall, as in a dance studio, used by ballet dancers as a support in certain exercises.
A fingering technique used with fretted stringed instruments in which a finger is laid across the fretboard to stop all or several strings at once.

[French, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *barra, of Gaulish origin.]

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