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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bar·ba·ry n.  The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic.  Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon.
 Barbary ape Zool., an ape (Macacus innuus) of north Africa and Gibraltar Rock, being the only monkey inhabiting Europe.  It is very commonly trained by showmen.