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Barb
A breed of horse from "Barbary", or Berber, coast of the Mediterranean (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco), and rather smaller than the Arabian. The term equus de Barbaria occurs in letters of the Emperor Frederick II in 1240. In England the term "Barb" is first found in 1636.
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