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名詞

barranco (plural barrancos or barrancoes)

1. A gully, gulch, or ravine.
   • 1867, The Month: A Magazine and Review, page 344:

     We remounted at 3 p.m., and for three hours and a half we rode down a goat-track which resembled the depths of a barranco. It was the dry bed of a river, with rocks balanced upon each other […]

   • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

     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.