Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruanas
Literary usage of Ruanas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Granada: Twenty Months in the Andes by Isaac Farwell Holton (1857)
"Some horsemen rode past while I was sitting with them, and fairly started me to
my feet with the flaming colors of their ruanas. Those of the better class ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1894)
"That this is not the case, Kanada explains by the assumption of the organ of
thought or inner sense (ruanas'), with which the soul stands in the most ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1848)
"... coarse white pantaloons, some with scarcely any ; here a blue coat, there the
remains of a red one ; short breeches and shoeless feet, ponchos, ruanas, ..."
4. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1848)
"... here a blue coat, there the remains of a red one ; short breeches and shoeless
feet, ponchos, ruanas, sandals, sashes, bayonets without scabbards, ..."
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