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comtesse du barry

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Du Bar⋅ry

[doo bar-ee, dyoo; Fr. dy ba-ree]
–noun
Comtesse (Marie Jeanne Bécu), 1746–93, mistress of Louis XV.
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Du Bar·ry   (dōō bār'ē, dyōō-, dü bä-rē')   
French courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV. She was sentenced to be guillotined for crimes against the state by a Revolutionary tribunal.
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