Definition of Pericon

1. a type of folk dance [n PERICONES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pericon

periclinal
periclinia
periclinium
periclitate
periclitated
periclitates
periclitating
periclitation
periclitations
pericolic
pericolitis
pericolitis sinistra
pericolonitis
pericon (current term)
periconceptional
periconchal
periconchal sulcus
pericones
pericontusional
pericopae
pericopal
pericope
pericopes
pericopic
pericorneal
pericoronal
pericoronal abscess
pericoronal flap

Literary usage of Pericon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Conquest of New Granada: Being the Life of Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1922)
"The Spaniards named him pericon, just as, in old times, in the Southern ... pericon was well treated by his captors,3 and became a great friend of the ..."

2. History of Mexico by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Thomas Savage, Joseph Joshua Peatfield (1888)
"... and the pericon is on the grade of the fooler, so that the length of cutting to Tarifa will be less than 10000 feet, through easy ground, ..."

3. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators ...by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1909)
"See Sanchez pericon. PERIODICALS (newspapers, journals, bulletins, and magazine«)— In general: importance, 52, 67; importance of Span. for Phil. ..."

4. An Historical View of the Philippine Islands: Exhibiting Their Discovery by Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga, John Maver (1814)
"pericon and Mos- quera had been, before the commencement of the voyage, inimical to each other, and in its progress their mutual ..."

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