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Definition of Alforjas
1. alforja [n] - See also: alforja
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alforjas
Literary usage of Alforjas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two years in Peru, with exploration of its antiquities by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1873)
"alforjas.—Chic- lay o and its battered church.—Description of copper implements
disinterred from burial-mound at Chiclayo. ..."
2. Glimpses of Spain; Or, Notes of an Unfinished Tour in 1847 by Severn Teackle Wallis (1849)
"... alforjas — Dawn upon Cordova—The Mosque—Moorish Relics—St. Raphael, and what
he swore—The Christian Captive and his Cross—Procession and Silver ..."
3. The Spaniards & Their Country by Richard Ford (1852)
"The Rider's costume—alforjas: their contents—The Bota, and How to use it—Pig
Skins and Borracha—Spanish Money—Onzas and smaller coins. ..."
4. Excursions Along the Shores of the Mediterranean. by Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier (1842)
"... group—Ascent of Mount Ida—Bears and tigers—Sources of the Scamander —alforjas—An
ambulatory hotel—Making purchases—Land tortoises—Disappointment. ..."
5. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1853)
"Las alforjas does not mean tho bridle-roads of Spain, as Mr. Bent- ley's blundering
half-title would lead us to infer. The lover of Don Quixote will ..."
6. The Alhambra by Washington Irving, Edward K. Robinson (1915)
"Knowing the scanty larders of Spanish inns and the houseless tracts we might have
to traverse, we had taken care to have the alforjas of our squire well ..."
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