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Definition of Criollo
1. Noun. A Spanish American of pure European stock (usually Spanish). "Mexico is a country of mestizos, criollos, and indigenes"
Generic synonyms: Hispanic, Hispanic American, Spanish American
2. Noun. Cocoa of superior quality.
Definition of Criollo
1. a person of Spanish ancestry [n -LLOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Criollo
Literary usage of Criollo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson (1916)
"EL EXTRANJERO Y EL criollo Oficios y Empleos; Negative Forms; Vocabulary relating
to Occupations ..."
2. Southern California Quarterly by Los Angeles County Pioneers of Southern California, Historical Society of Southern California (1884)
"We may conclude, then : " criollo " at first meant only a child of Spanish ...
Later a " criollo " was a person born in the Indies of any descent other than ..."
3. Winston's Cumulative ... Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Bookby Charles Morris by Charles Morris (1917)
"The family is found in all parts of the vll/lji'' name which was originally given
searches for its insect food on rocks. Creole (kre'öl; Spanish, criollo) ..."
4. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"There are three principal groups of the varieties of cacao, criollo, ... A very
smooth fruited subvariety of the criollo group is known under the name ..."
5. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"There are three principal groups of the varieties of cacao, criollo, ... A very
smooth fruited subvariety of the criollo group is known under the name ..."
6. The Town of San Felipe and Colonial Cacao Economies by Eugenio Piñero (1994)
"criollo a. Central American criollos b. South American criollos 2. ... 2 The
term "criollo" was coined in Venezuela by a cacao hacendado early in the ..."
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