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  • adjective of or relating to Rioja in Spain, or to its wine
  • noun countable a native or inhabitant of this region
  • noun uncountable the dialect of Spanish spoken there

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Examples

  • Sheila was married to Paco, a Riojan wide boy whose early career as a shoe-salesman had blossomed into the ownership of the Zarautz's pinkest pub.

    Now Donal Thompson 2010

  • So was that porcine prince, acorn-fed Iberico ham, served with toast, Riojan olive oil and tomatoes that were in clear breach of the

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Riojan and Basque inspiration with a modern, clean approach.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • The Viura is a commonplace grape, the most widely used variety in Spain's Riojan wines.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • All of us agreed on that this park was much better administrated than the Riojan side of it, as one had more freedom to stop and look around but not cramped in a minivan in a hurry to cover the area in just an hour and a half - here we took our time, so we could all appreciate the landscape, which was in fact very lunar-like and many bizzare rock formations and different colors, from grey to purple, from brown to green!

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

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