Lexicographical Neighbors of Canchas
Literary usage of Canchas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Spanish-American Reader by Frederick Bliss Luquiens (1917)
"16. en las canchas de varas. A cancha is an enclosure where some sport is carried
on. The canchas de varas were places where men fought with staves (varas). ..."
2. Mining in the Pacific States of North America by John Shertzer Hittell (1881)
"... personaje no poco conocido en aquellas canchas, que no tenia don ni siquiera
ño (abreviatura plebeya de señor) pero llevaba mas que apropiado nombre ..."
3. Peruvian Antiquities by Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz, Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1855)
"... the king of the canchas, and made a triumphal entry into Cuzco, with a splendor
never before seen. He had four sons—May ta-Yupanqui, Mayta-Capac, ..."
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