Crossword clues for frijole
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frijol \Fri"jol\, Frijole \Fri"jole\, n.; pl. Frijoles. Also Frejol \Fre"jol\ [Sp. fr['i]jol, fr['e]jol.]
In Mexico, the southwestern United States, and the West Indies, any cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus, esp. the black seed of a variety of P. vulgaris.
The beanlike seed of any of several related plants, as the cowpea. Frijoles are an important article of diet among Spanish-American peoples, being used as an ingredient of many dishes.
WordNet
n. the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans) [syn: kidney bean, frijol]
Mexican bean; usually dried
Usage examples of "frijole".
It hardly seemed likely a bunch of Anglo outlaws would be having Mexican frijoles for supper.
Seven hundred years from now, this place would be identified on maps as Burnt Mesa, overlooking Frijoles Canyon within the Bandelier National Monument, not far from the town of Los Alamos, New Mexico.
February, Captain Mendoza personally led a band of his rurales, hardened men accustomed to shoot without asking questions, into the village of Temchic, intending to arrest Frijoles.
Joe did it because he was hungry for an enchilada made from honest-to-God Milagro frijoles, with some Devine Company cojones mixed in.
Things would have continued to go well, thanks to the surveillance of the rural police and the church, if it had not been for a lean, long-legged, mean-visaged troublemaker whom the miners followed, but who the engineers named contemptuously Capitan Frijoles, Captain Baked Beans, the Windy One.
An army battalion from Chihuahua was dispatched to Temchic, but was ignominiously defeated by Frijoles and his resolute miners.
The American engineers and their families were sent down the valley under armed escort, and were now in Chihuahua city, giving interviews which explained that Frijoles and his gang were insane demons bent on destroying Mexico.
The Germans were gone too, all except one quixotic young man who elected to stay with Frijoles and the miners.
Those men who had listened to Frijoles were a menace to Mexico and had to be exterminated.
They forayed eastward and the woman led them to a small valley where Colonel Salcedo had been forced to hole up, awaiting reinforcements, and when Frijoles saw that Salcedo was indeed among the troops, he became frenzied and led three suicidal charges into the mouths of the guns, and the federal soldiers were overwhelmed and slain one after another, but Salcedo was kept alive and taken prisoner.
Apparently Colonel Frijoles had long anticipated this moment, for he knew precisely what he wanted to do.
And then the woman and Frijoles withdrew to watch the sun and the insects go to work, and when the screams were most agonized, Tranquilino asked, “Can I shoot him?
And breakfast was cooking at last: in fact, the frijoles were on fire.
The only unusual activity they'd noticed had been a couple of National Guard patrol boats, venturing out from Gatún and Frijoles to disturb the peace with their droning outboards.
By and large I'd found Mexicans the salt of the earth, and many a time when on the dodge the only thing that kept me alive was a bait of frijoles and tortillas at some Mexican sheep camp.