asiento

American  

[ah-see-en-toh] / ˌɑ siˈɛn toʊ /

noun

asientos plural

1. History/Historical. an agreement with the Spanish crown to supply African slaves for its colonies in America, especially such an agreement made by Great Britain after 1713.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• asientos
  plural

Example Sentences

The asiento is also spread atop the tlayuda, a large, thin, crisp tortilla also topped with black bean sauce, cabbage, tomatoes, avocado slices and your choice of meat.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2020

Layered on top of the asiento are smooth black beans and queso fresco.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2020

Many initiations followed, but I was not allowed to Felicia’s last one, her asiento.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

For a quarter-century thereafter the Spanish government, regarding the Portuguese as rebels, suspended all trade relations with them, the asiento included.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell

We acquired Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and the Hudson Bay territory, and, in addition to the asiento, the right of trading in the possessions of the House of Bourbon—in fact, the commerce of the world.

From Lectures on Modern history by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron