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colada
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n. (context informal English) piña colada
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Colada is one of the two best-known swords, along with Tizona, of El Cid Campeador. Won in combat from the Count of Barcelona, the sword was presented (along with Tizona) to his sons in law. According to the heroic verses of the Cantar de mio Cid, after his sons-in-law beat his daughters and then abandoned them on the side of the road, El Cid asked for his gifts to be returned. Afterward, he bestowed the sword upon one of his knights, Martín Antolínez.
Though its authenticity is doubted, a blade named Colada and traditionally identified with that of El Cid, with the addition of a 16th-century hilt, is preserved in the Royal Palace of Madrid.
According to Sebastián de Covarrubias, Colada clearly means a sword made from "acero colado", a process of alloyed steel without impurities.
As with Tizona, Colada appears in the epic poem Cantar de mio Cid as a sword that frightens unworthy opponents if wielded by a brave warrior. El Cid gives the sword to Martín Antolínez as a present, and he uses it in the duel against the infante Diego González.
Verses 3648-3665:
Martin Antolinez mano metio al espada.
Relumbra tod el campo: tanto es limpia e clara.
Diol vn colpe, de trauiessol tomaua.
El casco de somo apart gelo echaua.
Las moncluras del yelmo todas gelas cortaua.
Alla leuo el almofar, fata la cofia legaua.
La cofia e el almofar todo gelo leuaua.
Raxol los de la cabeça, bien a la carne legaua.
Lo vno cayo en el campo e lo al suso fincaua.
Quando este colpe a ferido Colada la preçiada.
Vio Diego Gonçalez que no escaparie con el alma.
Boluio la rienda al cauallo por tornasse de cara.
Esora Martin Antolinez reçibiol con el espada:
Un colpel dio de plano, con lo agudo nol tomaua.
Ya Gonçalez espada tiene en mano, mas non la ensayaua.
Esora el ynfante tan grandes voces daua:
-¡Valme, Dios glorioso, Señor, cúriam deste espada!-''
Translation
Martín Antolínez took his sword in hand,
it lights up all the field, it is so clean and bright,
he gave him a blow, he hit him a glancing blow,
''it broke away the top of the helmet,
it cut away all the helmet straps,''
it tore off the mailed hood, and reached the coif,
''the coif and the hood all were ripped away,
it cut the hairs on his head, and it reached well into the flesh,
one part fell to the ground and the other remained.
When precious Colada has struck this blow,
Diego González saw that he would not escape with his soul,
he turned his horse to face his opponent.
At that moment Martín Antolínez hit him with his sword,
he struck him broadside, with the cutting edge he did not hit him.
Diego González has sword in hand, but he does not use it,
at that moment the infante began to shout,
-Help me, God, glorious Lord, and protect me from this sword!-''
Usage examples of "colada".
Over the years, Helen had fixed herself pifia coladas and Mudslides and daiquiris, Cosmopolitans and Appletinis.
Bosc opened his eyes and laughed as Milo walked around the kitchen opening cabinets and drawers, checking Bosc’s bachelor fridge—beer, wine, piña colada mix, three jars of salsa, an open can of chili-con-whatever.
Two stemmed goblets litter the ground, the remnants of pina colada melting into the pink sands.
Lupo mopped the bar, spun down a coaster, and put the pina colada on top of it.
When the waiter came, I ordered a pina colada, a drink I usually can't stand.
Her mouth tended to run away from her on good days, even when she wasn't insulted and hadn't had half a glass of potent pina colada to boot.
When they reached the bar, Matt and Carrie each got a pina colada.
Robin had called me 'Dr Stuart' while meeting my flight in Miami airport and 'dear boy' when pressing a pina colada into my hand, murmuring also 'pineapple juice, coconut milk and rum.
Once or twice a year you jump on a plane and fly to a beach where the sun shines more than in this miserable hole and sip a pina colada.
I muttered, as I mopped up a spilled pina colada and handed one of our last clean bar towels to the woman who'd knocked it over, since a lot of it was still in her skirt.
He looked at the flowered cushions and marveled at how an empty space could be so full of a person-her faint scent of coconut oil that always made him wish for a pina colada.
Then they are all yakking about their favourite cocktails, even poor old Jane perking up a bit as she weighs in with her thoughts on the humble Pina Colada.
At the corner they invaded a hot dog stand and drank a pina colada to sober up.