barbarous

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From Latin barbarus (foreigner, savage)

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barbarous

  1. see barbaric.

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  1. I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
    By the known rules of antient libertie,
    When strait a barbarous noise environs me
    Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs - I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs, John Milton (1673)

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