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Definition of Cantinas
1. cantina [n] - See also: cantina
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantinas
Literary usage of Cantinas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Buenos Aires and the Best of Argentina Alive!by Arnold Greenberg by Arnold Greenberg (2000)
"Tie C AH lot A* o( LA cantinas are traditional, informal places where the waiters
love to sing and the owner does his best to get the newcomers involved. ..."
2. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (1842)
"cantinas, CANTEENS, small tin chests set in cork wood, and covered with leather,
for carrying wine and other liquors on a march or journey. CANTINERO, sm. ..."
3. An Inverted Sort of Prayer by Chris F. Needham (2006)
"Other times I'd stop at one of the roadside cantinas and have myself an Imperial
... There were many such cantinas along the roadside, and I made many such ..."
4. An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language by Franciscans, St. Michaels, Ariz (1910)
"The blanket, and sometimes a sheep pelt or two, are secured in a bundle in the
rear of the saddle. cantinas and saddle-bags are ..."
5. Camp and Camino in Lower California: A Record of the Adventures of the by Arthur Walbridge North (1910)
"Meantime I would strap on my revolver, slip the cantinas over my saddle pommel
and continue my journal work. "Listo caminando" (Ready for marching), ..."
6. The Andean Land: (South America) by Chase Salmon Osborn (1909)
"The zone system for cantinas has been adopted; temperance is taught in all of
the schools, and in many towns the laws have been made so strict as to reduce ..."
7. Vigilante Days and Ways: The Pioneers of the Rockies; the Makers and Making by Nathaniel Pitt Langford (1912)
"Buckskin sacks, containing about eighty thousand dollars, were distributed in
cantinas through the entire pack-train, no one pair of cantinas containing a ..."
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