cantina
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cantina
1835–45, < Spanish < Italian; see canteen
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“I can sit here and tell you my entire fire story,” he said over lunch at a cantina in downtown Santa Rosa, “and you’ll empathize with it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
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
Martinez ran the cantina from 2000 to 2019.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
Yolanda pulls up at a cantina, its thatched roof held up by several posts, its floor poured cement, and in its very center, a lone picnic table over which a swarm of flies hover.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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
Although McNally’s statement as to the loads consisting 346 exclusively of gold was somewhat of an exaggeration, nevertheless the cantinas were very heavy.
From Gold by White, Stewart Edward
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