barranco

See also: Barranco

Portuguese
barranco (dirt cliff)
barranco (gully)

Noun

barranco m (plural barrancos)

  1. a dirt cliff, especially one at the edge of a river or road
  2. gully (trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow)

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Spanish

Noun

barranco m (plural barrancos)

  1. ravine
    • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict‎:
      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.
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