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barnstar.

A decorative painted object or image, often in the shape of a five-pointed star but occasionally in a circular wagon-wheel style, used to adorn a barn.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A decorative painted object or image, often in the shape of a five-pointed star but occasionally in a circular wagon-wheel style, used to adorn a barn.

  2. A lucky charm resembling a star plate, similar to a horseshoe

  3. An image posted on a wiki user's personal page by another user, as an informal award or form of recognition.

Where this word comes from

From barn + star. In the wiki sense a reference to the communal practice of barnraising, introduced on the MeatballWiki in the early 2000s and adopted by Wikipedia in 2003.

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