[Fr., ad. It. and Rumansch barba (= med.L. barba, also barbas, barbanus) uncle, lit. ‘the bearded.’] Respectful title given by the Vaudois to their teachers.
1710. in Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 16th C., I. III. 367. The Barbes … have not the courage to own their Doctrine avowedly.
1838. G. Faber, Inquiry, 530. The Barbs who visited them from Apulia. Ibid., 338. Barbes.
