bombilla
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of bombilla
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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Each participant drains the gourd through the same perforated straw, which the Spanish dubbed a bombilla.
From Slate • Sep. 10, 2012
They continued the Guaraní custom of sharing the same gourd and bombilla, a ritual that continues today.
From Slate • Sep. 10, 2012
You say that Oliva Paz presented President Harry Truman, on behalf of Per�n, with a bombilla .
From Time Magazine Archive
One of these was seated on some rugs and saddle gear, which had been piled up for the purpose, and he was at the time occupied in sucking Matè through a silver "bombilla," or tube.
From Blanco y Colorado Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay by Tetley, William C.
The bombilla is for the purpose of straining the infusion—which is of a greenish-brown—as the powder would otherwise get into the mouth.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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