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  • Reaching a door which she had noticed before, marked "popote," she paused a second, listening to the hum of voices within, then pushed at the door and entered.

    The Happy Foreigner 1920

  • Mazingira ama makambi ya jeshi ni mazuri sana, salama, kuna utaratibu safi na utunzaji wa mazingira ni namba moja! ndiyo sababu popote kambi ilipo, raia watasogea na watajenga tuu, ukiangalia maeneo yote hayo yalikuwa misitu minene wakati jeshi lilipo establish makambi lakini with time wananchi wamesogea na wengine wamevamia kabisa!

    Global Voices in English » Tanzania: Dar es Salaam Armoury Explosion Death Toll Rises 2009

  • Here are some cross references for you: apricot: chabacano (Mexico) junk food: comida chatarra onion scallion: cebollita straw (for drinking): popote corrections (mostly just spelling): snail: caracol hot to taste: picante romeritos: a fresh green, similar in appearance to rosemary, but used cooked in sauces, especially during Lent and Christmas.

    My Spanish - English Mexican Food Lexicon 2005

  • The popote is buried four feet deep in Gothic art ....

    One Man's Initiation—1917 John Dos Passos 1933

  • If the total infrastructure from delivery of services to billing were a lot better, we'd be giving even more anal retentive people reasons to move here and put the Oxxo weiner sales under so much scrutiny you'd have to walk down a dark alley and buy them off a parasite cart stocked with warm mayonaise, two year old pickled chiles and wrinkled tomatoes not to speak of the jar of Cebada cooled with ice that was dumped on the banqueta and slid a block before it's cracked up and inserted into your plastic bag with your popote. bournemouth

    Rural Mexico revisited 2005

  • The Barron’s dictionary translates “straw” as “pajita,” “popote,” or “pitillo,” but it indicates the Mexican version is “popote.”

    Barron’s Spanish-English Pocket Bilingual Dictionary « Books « Literacy News 2010

  • o de presbytes akousas edeise te kai apeei sige, apocho - resas d ek tou stratopedou polla to Apolloni eucheto, tas te eponymias tou theou anakalon kai ypomimneskon kai apaiton, ei ti popote e en naon oikodomesesin, e en ieron thysiais kecharismenon doresaito. on de charin kateucheto tisai tous Achaious ta a dakrua tois ekeinon belesin.

    The Scholemaster 1570

  • o de presbytes akousas edeise te kai apeei sige, apocho - resas d ek tou stratopedou polla to Apolloni eucheto, tas te eponymias tou theou anakalon kai ypomimneskon kai apaiton, ei ti popote e en naon oikodomesesin, e en ieron thysiais kecharismenon doresaito. on de charin kateucheto tisai tous Achaious ta a dakrua tois ekeinon belesin.

    The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541

  • To gar horon pros to horomenon syngenes kai homoion poiaesamenon dei epiballein tae thea, ou gar an popote eiden ophthalmos haelion, haelioeidaes mae gegenaemenos oude to kalon an idae psychae, mae kagae genomenae -- "to those to whose imagination it has never been presented, how beautiful is the countenance of justice and wisdom; and that neither the morning nor the evening star are so fair.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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