caballo
Americannoun
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caballos
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Un hombre de caballo — a man of the horse — in the world of wicking polo shirts and bogeys?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
Not, fundamentally, because of Picasso and Guernica but because in Santeria ceremonies the medium is known as a caballo, a "horse" carrying the spirit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anyhow, you stay here and I’ll get yuh a caballo that can drift.”
From The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair
I haf see thees caballo in town one mornin’, and a girl she is ridin’ heem, and everybody is lookin’, and so I’m lookin’.”
From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Marcus Horton
"A syllogism is a word meanin' the same as another word, like as if I was to say caballo for horse or six-shooter for revolver."
From Oh, You Tex! by William MacLeod Raine
The gate leading to the patio de caballos swung open, and into the ring, its ancient radiator spewing steam, rumbled the city of Toledo's water truck.
From Time Magazine Archive
I bet you thees wagon, thees caballos, thees harness–everyt’ing–against everyt’ing yours–wagon, horses, harness–everyt’ing!
From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Marcus Horton
And the caballos need a grubstake for the winter worse than we do, because they can't eat meat.
From North of Fifty-Three by Anton Otto Fischer
The cattle and the horses, with the exception of `los caballos del santo', destined for show at feasts, were also used in common.
From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
Oviedo, speaking of this retreat of the good count and his followers, says, "Volvieron las riendas a sus caballos, y se retiraron a mas que galope por la multitud de los Infieles."
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by William Hickling Prescott
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