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Definition of Barnlike
1. resembling a barn [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barnlike
Literary usage of Barnlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... live in a large barnlike house open at both ends, and lined with mats made of
woven bark. The houses of the Malays are arranged along the shore of the ..."
2. English Journal by National Council of Teachers of English, National Council of Teachers of English Secondary Section (1919)
"The State Fair Commission made available a frame structure, barnlike, bare,
whitewashed. A rough stage was erected at one end—rough but of adequate ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1881)
"... his barnlike school in Newington Causeway, and again in the Borough Road under
the auspices of the Quakers, the King, the Duke of Bedford, and others, ..."
4. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"The rooms, in number more than sixty, though richly furnished, were vast and
barnlike, and there were numbers of them wholly unused and never entered. ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"When they entered the theatre Dorothy had a pang of disappointment. This barren,
barnlike place the arena for the great dramas of the muster! ..."
6. Travels in Alaska by John Muir (1915)
"... might be noticed here and there at the doors of their barnlike cabins, and a
merchant getting ready for trade; but scarcely a sound was heard, ..."
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