olla

[ aw-lyah, aw-yah; English ol-uh ]
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nounSpanish.
  1. a pot, especially an earthen pot for holding water, cooking, etc.

  2. a stew.

Other definitions for OLLA (2 of 2)

OLLA

  1. Office of Lend Lease Administration.

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How to use olla in a sentence

  • Just outside the town-house, under a thatched shelter, a group of old women were cooking atole in great ollas until a late hour.

    In Indian Mexico (1908) | Frederick Starr
  • When worked into a stiff paste, it is built by hand into great ollas and plates, one and a half or two feet in diameter.

    In Indian Mexico (1908) | Frederick Starr
  • These ollas we saw at many houses, and sometimes they were lashed to carts, plainly for bringing water from the stream.

    In Indian Mexico (1908) | Frederick Starr
  • When delivered to the customer, it was emptied into ollas, or urn-shaped vessels, made from burned clay or terra cotta.

  • Filters were not in use, in consequence of which fastidious people washed out their ollas very frequently.

British Dictionary definitions for olla

olla

/ (ˈɒlə, Spanish ˈoʎa) /


noun
  1. a cooking pot

  2. short for olla podrida

Origin of olla

1
Spanish, from Latin olla, variant of aulla pot

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