Crossword clues for criollo
Wiktionary
n. (cx historical English) A member of social class in the 16th century Spanish colonies, who were born in the colonies but had European lineage.
WordNet
n. a Spanish American of pure European stock (usually Spanish); "Mexico is a country of mestizos, criollos, and indigenes"
cocoa of superior quality
Wikipedia
Criollo or criolla (Spanish for " creole") may refer to:
Criollo is a Montreal-based Latin, Hip hop band.
Their music, in the "Bahire" style (which they coined), draws from Bachata, Hip hop, Reggae, Latin and R&B influences, and is sung in Spanish.
In 2006, they released the album, Bahire which is distributed by SOPREF ( LOCAL Distribution).
The band formed in 2003 include four members; Salvador "Sol" Valdez, Jose "Chiro" Mata, Alexis "El Gordo" Grullon and Gilbert "Giby" Capellan. These extremely talented musicians also have other artistic talents such as producing/directing music videos, engineering their own songs in the studio and musically and artistically directing albums for other artists, notably Sans Pression, and worked with artists from the Americas, Africa and Europe, like BLESS, SAT (band) and Guru-Gangstarr. They have also been members of now defunct bands such as Zona-X, Ultimo Capitulo/Last Chapter and Black Sunz.
They performed at many world music festivals including Festival des Rythmes du Monde, been showcased on televised shows such as The Roof (TV), Belle et Bum and Teleritmo and opened for musicians such as Fat Joe, Tego Calderón, Elvis Crespo, N'Klabe, Aguakate, DJ IOP, José Alberto " El Canario" and IAM.
Usage examples of "criollo".
If a criollo like myself can take as his lover a Jivaro girl, others will follow.
And I would present myself on the Alameda, not as a silk dandy, a criollo full of masculine pride because their only glory had been parading up and down the greenway, but as a wearer of spurs who had lived life and sported action.
Vigoroso alambre chanchero de metro y medio separa nuestra propiedad de un hueco vecino: uno de esos pintorescos baldíos, para emplear el insubstituible vocablo criollo, que aún perduran invictos en el corazón de la urbe y donde el gato del barrio acude tal vez a buscar las hierbas curativas que mitigarán sus dolencias de huraño célibataire de las tejas.
The Vagabonds, criollos, the mountain-dwelling Indian peons, the desperadoes from the mining-country up north, these were only permitted to gather in the City on certain occasions, and an auto da fé was one of them.
There was a bottle of garlicky -criollo- sauce for the pork, a bowl of mixed green and black olives, and butter and guava jelly for the rolls.