bota
Americannoun
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botas
plural
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Also called bota bag. a wine bag of Spain made of untanned goatskin and usually holding 1–2 liters (1.1–2.2 quarts).
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a wine barrel of Spain holding 500 liters (132 U.S. gallons).
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Etymology
Origin of bota
First recorded in 1725–30; from Spanish, from Late Latin butta, buttis “cask, barrel”; see origin at butt 4
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If Flake had his way, the next ironic accoutrement would be the bota bag.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dangling a bota around your neck in 2006?
From Time Magazine Archive
He blew it up, his cheeks puffing ahead of the wine-skin, and stood on the bota holding on to a chair.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
The hostess, however, who was present waiting, said, 'If the gentleman wish for wine, I have a bota nearly full, which I will instantly fetch.'
From The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain by George Henry Borrow
The song is as unceasing as the bells, unless when interrupted by a pull at the wine bota, or by the narration of some wild story of bandit cruelty or contrabandist daring.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
Like Jake before us, we step out of the bodega to find a shop that sells wine botas.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
“Now, to see anybody with their tejanas and botas just on a random day at the mall is super cool.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
“Kids are now wearing their botas to school or their tejanas and starched jeans.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
They wonder whether it’s a random trend, like botas picudas, or a sincere attempt at re-indigenization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
His long botas were of soft yellow leather stamped with designs in silver and gartered with blue ribbon.
From The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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