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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hut of the Aleuts, half underground and covered with soil. Also barrabarra.

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  • If we burn Fossil fuels, Greenalnd will melt and barabara streisands Mansion in

    Does Hansen's Error "Matter"? « Climate Audit 2007

  • The barabara may also be covered with earth, sod, or mud.

    Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Daniel Carter Beard 1895

  • The instinct of the cave-dweller is deeply implanted in the hearts of boys, and every year we have a list of fatal accidents caused by the little fellows digging caves in sand-banks or banks of gravel which frequently fall in and bury the little troglodytes, but they will be safe in a barabara.

    Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Daniel Carter Beard 1895

  • Plant your first four posts for the front of your barabara in a line, two posts for the corners _B_ and _E_ (Fig. 145 _A_), and two at the middle of the line _C_ and _D_ for door-jambs (plan, Fig. 145 _A_).

    Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Daniel Carter Beard 1895

  • To build a barabara you will need eight short posts for the outside wall and six or eight longer posts for the inside supports (Fig. 145).

    Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Daniel Carter Beard 1895

  • Pawnee hogan (Figs. 42 and 43), the real difference being in the peculiar log work of the barabara in place of the teepee-like rafters of the said hogan.

    Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Daniel Carter Beard 1895

  • Na katika eneo la Eastleigh nyuma ya maduka maarufu ya Garissa Lodge hali ya barabara ni mbaya huku mandhari ya maji taka ikiwakodolea macho kila uchao.

    WN.com - Articles related to SYRIA: Why the water shortages? 2010

  • Na katika eneo la Eastleigh nyuma ya maduka maarufu ya Garissa Lodge hali ya barabara ni mbaya huku mandhari ya maji taka ikiwakodolea macho kila uchao.

    WN.com - Articles related to SYRIA: Why the water shortages? 2010

  • Na katika eneo la Eastleigh nyuma ya maduka maarufu ya Garissa Lodge hali ya barabara ni mbaya huku mandhari ya maji taka ikiwakodolea macho kila uchao.

    WN.com - Articles related to SYRIA: Why the water shortages? 2010

  • Na katika eneo la Eastleigh nyuma ya maduka maarufu ya Garissa Lodge hali ya barabara ni mbaya huku mandhari ya maji taka ikiwakodolea macho kila uchao.

    WN.com - Articles related to SYRIA: Why the water shortages? 2010

  • Barabaras were semi-subterranean dwellings, made by digging an underground chamber and then erecting a wooden or whalebone frame over it.

    Barabara (Barabaras) 2023

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  • "The Eskimos there lived in what was called a 'barabara.' Barabaras were circular structures two-thirds underground; they were built like that to withstand the shrieking winds that routinely blew at hurricane force, winds that ripped conventional structures apart. One rescuer described a barabara as 'roughed over with slabs of peat sod, ... entrance to which is gained through a tunnel of from four to five feet in height, this tunnel being its only means of light and ventilation, in most cases; about the sides of these rooms are dug shelves and in these shelves, on mattresses of dried grasses and furs, the people sleep.'"

    —John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (NY: Penguin Books, 2004), 360

    February 17, 2009