Meanings
adjectivebarbal (not comparable)
- not comparableRelating to beards.
Much depends here on how persuasive you find the entailments that Oldstone-Moore draws between historical circumstances and barbal fashions.
2015 October 23, Ned Beauman, “Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair by Christopher Oldstone-Moore review”, in The Guardian
Origin
- Latinbarba“beard”
- Englishbarbal
From Latin barba (“beard”) + -al.
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Cite this entry
APA
barbal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/barbal
MLA
“barbal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/barbal. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “barbal,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/barbal.
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