cantina
Americannoun
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cantinas
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cantina
1835–45, < Spanish < Italian; see canteen
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Others reckon it would have the chaotic charm of the “Star Wars” cantina.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
According to testimony in the criminal trial, Erickson and Grossman were drinking margaritas at a local cantina before the pair got into their respective vehicles and headed to Grossman’s home to watch a presidential debate.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
It was truly a spectacle that combined the aspects of a rock concert, “Christian” evangelical megachurch service, crime family gathering, bazaar, Mos Eisley cantina from "Star Wars" and a professional wrestling supercard.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2024
The video showed four bright pink and orange shrimp, antennae seeming to wave as they spun around and bobbed up-and-down to a chucklesome version of the “Star Wars” cantina song.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
After inspecting the site itself—a wet, peaty bank strikingly unlike the sere desert home of Folsom and Clovis—the archaeologists ended up at a dimly lighted cantina with the appropriate name of La Caverna.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
English speakers pour out of cafes and, on Sundays, cantinas are packed with young people in sports jerseys, the televisions switched from soccer to American football.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
In 1970 he wrote the seminal Latin American love song “Yolanda,” which is still an enduring favorite from Old Havana’s tourist cafes to Mexico City cantinas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
In 1970 he wrote the seminal Latin American love song “Yolanda,” which is still an enduring favorite everywhere from Old Havana’s tourist cafes to Mexico City cantinas.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
Adorned with bright lights, it’s also home to a number of cantinas and restaurants.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022
That was odd also, if Simpson had only known it; the many cantinas offered attractions which the carpenter's house did not.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Edison Marshall
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