barrera

[buh-rair-uh; Sp. bahr-re-rah]

bar·re·ra

[buh-rair-uh; Sp. bahr-re-rah]
noun, plural bar·re·ras [-rair-uhz; Sp. -re-rahs] .
1.
the wall, usually a red wooden fence, bordering a bullring.
2.
the first row of seats in a bullfight arena.

Origin:
1920–25; < Spanish: barrier, equivalent to barr(a) bar1 + -eraLatin -āria -ary
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Barrera is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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