Wiktionary
n. 1 Gift given at Christmas or at the feast of the Epiphany. 2 Gift given on any other holiday or occasion. 3 Christmas pay bonus; Christmas box. 4 (qualifier: Latin America) Christmas carol. 5 A song performed in this style.
Wikipedia
Aguinaldo is a folk genre of Christmas music in several Latin American countries, based on an archaic form of Spanish Christmas carols or villancicos which is traditionally sung on Christmas itself or during the surrounding holiday season. Aguinaldo music is often performed by what is called parrandas - a casual group of people, often family or friends, who merrily go from house to house taking along their singing.
Aguinaldo is a folk genre of Christmas music.
Aguinaldo may also refer to:
- Aguinaldo, Ifugao, a municipality in the Philippines
- Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, Cavite, a municipality in the Philippines
Usage examples of "aguinaldo".
General Aguinaldo permitted the right side of his face to twitch slightly in response while the rest of the staff laughed politely.
He was about the same height as Aguinaldo but stockier, like his Korean forebears.
He knew he was responsible for the debacle, but to hear it put into words by another military man, his superior officer now but more than that, a renowned fighter like Aguinaldo, brought the terrible load of his failure home.
Marine headquarters for General Aguinaldo to be reasonably sure he knew where enough of the tanks were for him to kill the First Tank Brigade.
But General Aguinaldo was in full command of the planetside operations and he had to obey.
General Aguinaldo put the Marines to the east, the direction he suspected held the greatest threat.
The ass-chewing that Aguinaldo had directed at the commanders of the 37th Infantry Division was a potent spur to speed.
First Tank Brigade and the Third Armored Division to escape, General Aguinaldo had enough strength on hand to take the battle to the enemy.
Since you Marines provide the security for our embassies, I asked General Aguinaldo to designate one of his commanders to do the same for the Ambassador.
General Aguinaldo had mobilized his entire division and, with help from the army, a thorough search and surveillance operation encompassing all the territory within a hundred-kilometer radius of Mount Amethyst was mounted.
Wimbush sat flanked by Ambassador Wellington-Humphreys and General Aguinaldo on his right, and the two army Corps commanders on his left.
Marine Corps units from battalion on up, probably the colors of units Aguinaldo had commanded.
There was a trid made on Diamunde, and another with Aguinaldo standing with Sturgeon and his other major commanders on that campaign.
HQMC complex, Sturgeon thought something was odd about the way Aguinaldo had checked the records then quickly dismissed him.
He also noticed that during the few minutes they were together, Aguinaldo had oddly enough returned to first-name informality.