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Valley, in the Southwest
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rincon
Word definitions for rincon in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (cx US southwestern US English) A meadow on the south-facing upper slopes of a mountain. 2 (cx US southwestern US English) An abandoned meander. 3 (cx US southwestern US English) An interior corner; a nook; hence, an angular recess or hollow bend in ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A rincón is a grass meadow. The term is in wide use in English in the southwest United States , where it refers specifically to a sloping (usually steep) meadow on the south facing upper slopes of a forested mountain. These characteristic high meadows are ...
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 220 Housing Units (2000): 65 Land area (2000): 1.029855 sq. miles (2.667312 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.029855 sq. miles (2.667312 sq. km) FIPS code: 62900 Located within: New Mexico ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rincon \Rin*con"\, n.; pl. Rincones . [Sp. rinc['o]n.] An interior corner; a nook; hence, an angular recess or hollow bend in a mountain, river, cliff, or the like. [Western & Southern U. S.] --D. S. Jordan.
Usage examples of rincon.
Ricardo Rincon, strikes out David justice on three pitches and gets Eric Chavez to pop out on four.
He had about forgotten Damond Jack McLernan, who for three years had made his hangout in the almost inaccessible fastness of the Amarillo Mountains, and from there ridden out on raids that had terrorized the Rincon Valley country.
Jerry said like hell they were and told Ricker about the time he'd gone fishing at Rincon and walked through a thicket of it, not seeing the leaves because it was winter, but how even that much exposure had been enough to make his dick swell up like a beer can.
He'd left Puerto Rico a day early, after the de la Hoya cousins wisely discarded their original explanation of the three hundred Chinese machine guns found in their beach house at Rincon (to wit: they'd unknowingly rented the place to a band of leftist guerrillas posing as American surfers).
Then Rincon himself had arrived—but the Jimminies were not allowed to see him.
They passed Pitas Point, then Rincon Point, and the beaches of Carpinteria.
Creo que el verdadero criminal mató a Kallian para conseguir lo que había en el cuenco y ahora está oculto en algún rincón del Templo.
They followed a dry watercourse up under a dark rincón in the rocks and picked their way over a flood barricade of boulders tumbled in the floor of the wash and emerged upon a stone tinaja in the center of which lay a shallow basin of water, perfectly round, perfectly black, where the night stars were lensed in perfect stillness.
The fire in the tank behind them was invisible save for the play of it on the rocks of the rincón and as they rode it receded to a faint glow pocketed in the otherwise dark of the desert night and then vanished altogether.