Definitions
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calli- .
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Examples
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Veracruz City's Plaza de Armas or zócalo is alive with smiling people and food, chotchke and balloon vendors.
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Veracruz City's Plaza de Armas or zócalo is alive with smiling people and food, chotchke and balloon vendors.
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Veracruz City's Plaza de Armas or zócalo is alive with smiling people and food, chotchke and balloon vendors.
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Some days the zócalo is a quiet place to rest and reflect; other days it's packed with dancers and partiers.
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The raptor, Falco sparverius fernandensis, the cernícalo, is represented in San Ambrosio by a subspecies lives on this island as well as on the Juan Fernández Archipelago.
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Commuters have to fight to get past protest barricades of trash, cars and trees, while the Zócalo is completely sealed off by police.
Our beloved Oaxaca, now on US and Canadian Do Not Visit list 2006
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Commuters have to fight to get past protest barricades of trash, cars and trees, while the Zócalo is completely sealed off by police.
Our beloved Oaxaca, now on US and Canadian Do Not Visit list 2006
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On one side of the zócalo is the Palacio de Gobierno and its arched courtyard, housing the murals of a local Yucateco artist, Francisco Castro Pacheco.
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On one side of the zócalo is the Palacio de Gobierno and its arched courtyard, housing the murals of a local Yucateco artist, Francisco Castro Pacheco.
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This zócalo is not surrounded by shops and restaurants, like the ones in Pátzcuaro, Puebla, Cholula or Coatepec, but it has a unique lookout, affording a breathtaking view of the surrounding hills and city.
Xalapa - A report 2000
MRBOGGLE commented on the word calo
"a variety of Spanish influenced by Mexican underworld argot with a large admixture of English words, spoken esp. by young Mexican-Americans in cities of the southwestern U.S."
June 9, 2009