Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalupa
Literary usage of Chalupa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"—Span, chalupa (also Port, chalupa), 'a small light vessel, a long boat,' Neuman.
... From what language chalupa is borrowed, has not yet been discovered ..."
2. Les enfants retardataires; arrêts de la croissance et troubles du développement by Jabez Hogg, Eugene Apert, Tilbury Fox, Paul Louis Gastou, Henry Percy Pickerill, Cesáreo Fernández Duro, T. Farquhar, H. Vandyke Carter (1881)
"son, para qué y cómo se usará de ellas, así como batel, chalupa, bombas, ...
De la chalupa y batel. CAPÍTULO XIV. Cualquier nao ha menester para su servicio ..."
3. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"F. chaloupe [whence Span, chalupa, 'a. flat- bottomed boat,' ... (1623) ; Port.
chalupa"]. — Du. sleep, a sloop. See Sloop. Shallot, Shalot, a kind of onion ..."
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