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Definition of Jacals
1. jacal [n] - See also: jacal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jacals
Literary usage of Jacals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes of the Mexican War, 1846-47-48: Comprising Incidents, Adventures and by J. Jacob Oswandel (1885)
"The Mexican rancheros and padrones, fellows who live in miserable jacals or ...
Their houses, or mud-plastered jacals (as we call them) were mostly deserted ..."
2. Potter's American Monthly (1880)
"I speak now particularly of the jacals. I think to the inventive mind of the
Mexican belongs this style of architecture exclusively. ..."
3. The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris, 1896-1898 by Frank Norris (1996)
"... or jacals that may be found almost anywhere throughout the mountains; he has
refreshed himself at any quantity of springs and creeks in the canon, ..."
4. History of California by Helen Elliott Bandini (1908)
"The jacals, or wigwams, were made of long willow boughs, driven into the ground
... Instantly out of the group of jacals came a crowd of men and boys, ..."
5. Biennial Report by South Dakota, California State Board of Horticulture, State Athletic Commission (1890)
"Patriotism would perish were we compelled to live in wretched thatched huts or
miserable jacals with earthen floors, in order that we might be able to ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1889)
"The houses of the ancient inhabitants, probably also jacals, like those of Lthe
present population, stood upon raised foundations, consisting of small ..."
7. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"These are sufficiently strong and long for use in building the walls and roofs
of huts or Mexican jacals. As a fiber plant the sotol is worthless; ..."
8. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"Entering the village, which consisted of a hundred or so of grass jacals that
ran in two lines along opposite banks of a small arroyo, his eye roved ..."
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