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  • noun Plural form of olla.

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Examples

  • What the head – carver had best do is to serve me with what they call ollas podridas (and the rottener they are the better they smell); and he can put whatever he likes into them, so long as it is good to eat, and I'll be obliged to him, and will requite him some day.

    Don Quixote 2002

  • What the head-carver had best do is to serve me with what they call ollas podridas

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • What the head-carver had best do is to serve me with what they call ollas podridas

    Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • What the head-carver had best do is to serve me with what they call ollas podridas

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 33 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • The compact candidate Ollanta Humala and his equally diminutive 29-year-old wife, Nadine, arrived dressed in bright red T shirts stamped with white letters that read amor por el peru [love for peru], and the patriotic theme was reinforced onstage by a dozen huge cooking pots known as ollas painted in the red and white stripes of the national flag.

    The Return of the Caudillo 2007

  • With more recognition from the plates, more visitors came to also purchase the black and polychrome pots, or "ollas," that his wife fashioned and he painted.

    Once, We Were So Poor . . . 2006

  • With more recognition from the plates, more visitors came to also purchase the black and polychrome pots, or "ollas," that his wife fashioned and he painted.

    Once, We Were So Poor . . . 2006

  • There are gigantic ollas in much need of attention.

    Mexican Highways 2008

  • There are gigantic ollas in much need of attention.

    Mexican Highways 2008

  • There are gigantic ollas in much need of attention.

    Mexican Highways 2008

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