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temescal
n. A sweat lodge or (l es temazcal)
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Temescal
Temescal may refer to:
- A sauna, from the Nahuatl word, temescalli. See: Temazcal
Usage examples of "temescal".
Lake Temescal, not far from the one-time city of Oakland, that I came upon the first live human beings.
That was what your other grandfather said to me, Hare-Lip, when he greeted me there on the shore of Lake Temescal fifty-seven years ago.
And I sat there, perforce, by the campfire on the shore of lake Temescal, and saw Vesta, Vesta Van Warden, kneel and remove the moccasins of that grinning, hairy, ape-like human brute.
Other glamorous-sounding old Los Angeles street names have equally ugly or homely meanings: Las Pulas means “the fleas,” Temescal means “sweat house,” while La Ciénega, street of the wonder-restaurants, means “the swamp.