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A Spanish American of pure European stock (usually Spanish)
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criollo
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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 ...
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n. a Spanish American of pure European stock (usually Spanish); "Mexico is a country of mestizos, criollos, and indigenes" cocoa of superior quality
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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.
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.