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adverb only a very short time before; ; ; ; ; - W.B.Yeats
adverb in a sparse or scanty way
originFrom Middle English baarly, bareliche, barely, barly, from Old English bærlīċe, equivalent to bare + -ly. Compare Danish bare (“only, just”), Norwegian bare (“only, just”).
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