barranco

plural barrancos · plural barrancoes

1. A gully, gulch, or ravine.

   A little fire burned in the hollow of the dusty barranco, a clear red fire of the kind that gives little light and makes no smoke, and its pale glow showed but feebly against the rock behind.

   1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC

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   We remounted at 3 p.m., and for three hours and a half we rode down a goat-track which resembled the depths of a barranco. It was the dry bed of a river, with rocks balanced upon each other […]

   1867, The Month: A Magazine and Review, page 344

plural Barrancos

1. A surname.