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Other names for pig are cerdo, cochino and marrano, and a suckling pig is called a lechón.
A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb 2008
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Other names for pig are cerdo, cochino and marrano, and a suckling pig is called a lechón.
A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb 2008
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Other names for pig are cerdo, cochino and marrano, and a suckling pig is called a lechón.
A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb 2008
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For example, there at least 4 words for pig: marrano, cuche, puerco, cerdo.
Be the Beast 2008
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They were called doenmeh, meaning “turncoatsâ€â€ a pejorative term not unlike marrano “pig.†Among themselves, they were called ma’aminim, “believers.†Sabbateanism did not die out in 1666, or even 10 years later when Tzvi himself died.
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Though Jabasters brother, Honain has lived like a marrano, assuming the external appearance of the Muslim world while keeping his personal beliefs to himself.
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Just as Disraeli questions the validity of the mystic and prophet, he similarly undermines the integrity of the marrano, historically the crypto-Jew who pretended to convert to Christianity in order to escape punishment by the Inquisition.
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In his first appearance, Honain projects the impression of a marrano who chose to go underground because even though the contemporary Jewish community could not fulfill his intellectual needs, he still wished to retain ties with his people, possibly even to help them from the outside.
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Contrary to the more usual Jewish interpretation, Disraeli portrays the marrano as being far worse than the convert, who at least retains some semblance of religious principle.
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Although Disraeli would later romanticize the marrano, even going so far as to create for himself
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