Crossword clues for cantina
cantina
- Bar in Spain (or Star Wars)
- Saloon
- Southwestern saloon
- Southwestern bar
- Saddle bag
- Mexican saloon
- Spanish bar
- Bar money in famous wedding location
- Bar area supporting couple with beer in them?
- Two containers of beer on a bar in Mexico?
- Southwestern watering hole
- Tijuana tavern
- One place to get a margarita
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"bar room, saloon," 1892, Texas and U.S. southwest dialect, from Spanish and Italian form of canteen.
Wiktionary
n. A drinking establishment, often specifically of the type found in Latin America.
Wikipedia
A cantina is a type of bar popular in Mexico and Spain. The word is similar in etymology to " canteen", and is derived from the Italian word for a cellar, winery, or vault. In Italy cantina refers to a room below the ground level where wine and other products such as salami are stored.
The term cantina entered the French language circa 1710 as cantine. It was used originally to refer to the shop of a sutler.
Usage examples of "cantina".
Nadon went to the cantina, thinking furiously, wondering how he might best lure Alima into the dangerous depth of his own personal biosphere.
Halperin found one of the little curbside cantinas and asked for mescal.
Whistler, wearing a tall, Lincolnesque stovepipe hat, a black dustcoat and round opaque white glasses and looking like nothing so much as a cartoon, launched into a weird Star-Wars Cantina anthem at major decibels on his synthesizer.
An unusual tale came to mind, one of the those preconquest stories I have heard waiting for Mateo outside cantinas.
Anakin pushed his way through the rain-slickered portround crowd, through vendors and street performers, past long rows of cantinas and tapcafs and souvenir shops full of mostly fake lacy shellwork and grossly caricatured statuettes of Grand Moff Tarkin.
Ji had assembled a class of combat students, maybe a dozen or so, mostly humans, and they were limbering up their bodies on a patch of pink shortgrass behind the cantina.
Sivrak had said those words in a hundred other cantinas on a dozen other worlds, but this time he meant them.
A few scattered houses and two cantinas still showed light, and there was another light at the Spanish fort that once guarded the harbor.
Past the taco stands, past the cantinas, past a little brawl of drunken boys, past the church, on whose steps the dancer in the phallic bat mask was performing, juggling pale green fruits and now and then batting one out into the night with the phallus that jutted from his chin.
I think he and his boys steal a bunch of money and ride down to Old Mexico where they whoop it up for a couple of months in the cantinas with the pretty young senoritas.
Kabe stood poised, ready to run to Muftak, but all Wuher did was order some moisture boy to get his two droids out of the cantina.
Yet Ben Kenobi was not a regular in town, and few in the cantina would have recognized him.
In the morning, when I reached the cantina, I found the Modal Nodes already there, setting up.
He headed toward her, but paused on the way for a tequila at an improvised cantina someone had set up on the streetcorner, using a big wooden box as the bar.
I decided to pack it in and we headed for the nearest town, where we drowned our frustration in too many tequilas in a little cantina.