chola

American  

[choh-luh] / ˈtʃoʊ lə /

noun

Chiefly Southwestern U.S.

1. (especially among Mexican-Americans) a teenage girl who associates closely with a gang of cholos or is the girlfriend of a cholo.

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Etymology

Origin of chola

First recorded in 1850–55; from Mexican Spanish, feminine of cholo

Example Sentences

By the standards of the medieval world, Chola queens were also remarkably prominent, serving as the dynasty's public face.

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The emperor Rajaraja Chola shared his great-aunt's taste for public relations and devotion - with one significant difference.

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This allowed the Brihadishvara to function as a mega-ministry of public works and welfare, an instrument of the Chola state, intended to channel Rajaraja's vast fortunes into new irrigation systems, into expanding cultivation, into vast new herds of sheep and buffalo.

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Rajaraja Chola's successor, Rajendra, built alliances with Tamil merchant corporations: a partnership between traders and government power that foreshadowed the East India Company - a powerful British trading corporation that later ruled large parts of India - that was to come more than 700 years later.

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Chola aristocrats invested war-loot into a wave of new temples, which sourced fine goods from a truly global economy linking the farthest shores of Europe and Asia.

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