Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In South America, the leading animal of a mule-train, usually distinguished by some head-ornament, chiefly by a bell dangling from the neck. In Spain the term is also used to designate the rope or leather band by which two mules are tied together; and for a wooden support in the shape of a pillar or column.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun S. America An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules.
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- noun An
animal (usually anold mare ), wearing abell and acting as theleader of atroop of pack mules.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Acting as "padrino" or "madrina" - Spanish for godfather and godmother - or sponsor, family or friends take on a range of responsibilities, providing and paying for parts of the festivities, including food, photos and the couple's clothing, said Araceli Ulloa, 19, of Los Angeles, whose family often helps couples in such ways.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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Acting as "padrino" or "madrina" - Spanish for godfather and godmother - or sponsor, family or friends take on a range of responsibilities, providing and paying for parts of the festivities, including food, photos and the couple's clothing, said Araceli Ulloa, 19, of Los Angeles, whose family often helps couples in such ways.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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Acting as "padrino" or "madrina" - Spanish for godfather and godmother - or sponsor, family or friends take on a range of responsibilities, providing and paying for parts of the festivities, including food, photos and the couple's clothing, said Araceli Ulloa, 19, of Los Angeles, whose family often helps couples in such ways.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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Acting as "padrino" or "madrina" - Spanish for godfather and godmother - or sponsor, family or friends take on a range of responsibilities, providing and paying for parts of the festivities, including food, photos and the couple's clothing, said Araceli Ulloa, 19, of Los Angeles, whose family often helps couples in such ways.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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Acting as "padrino" or "madrina" - Spanish for godfather and godmother - or sponsor, family or friends take on a range of responsibilities, providing and paying for parts of the festivities, including food, photos and the couple's clothing, said Araceli Ulloa, 19, of Los Angeles, whose family often helps couples in such ways.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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She has been chosen as the "madrina" or "godmother" of the new Queen Elizabeth ship.
BBC News - Home 2010
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Consequently, I was invited to their homes for family parties, asked to stand up with one young worker at his high school graduation as the madrina, and was a witness at the wedding of two others.
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Consequently, I was invited to their homes for family parties, asked to stand up with one young worker at his high school graduation as the madrina, and was a witness at the wedding of two others.
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Consequently, I was invited to their homes for family parties, asked to stand up with one young worker at his high school graduation as the madrina, and was a witness at the wedding of two others.
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Consequently, I was invited to their homes for family parties, asked to stand up with one young worker at his high school graduation as the madrina, and was a witness at the wedding of two others.
qms commented on the word madrina
The Biblioburro and learned madrina
Meet secretly behind the cantina.
For better or worse
They bray out their verse,
A sonnet for him, hers a sestina.
April 13, 2016