barranco
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Portuguese [edit]
Noun [edit]
barranco m (plural barrancos)
- a dirt cliff, especially one at the edge of a river or road
- gully (trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow)
Synonyms [edit]
- (dirt cliff): barranca, ribanceira
- (gully): voçoroca (Brazil)
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Spanish [edit]
Noun [edit]
barranco m (plural barrancos)
- ravine
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, The Dust of Conflict[1]:
- 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, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, The Dust of Conflict[1]:
