carromata
Americannoun
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carromatas
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of carromata
< Spanish carromato < Italian carromatto cart, equivalent to carro (< Latin carrus; see car 1) + matto stupid, drunk (referring to the cart's motion)
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The country cart is built something like the carromata and will accommodate four people.
From The Critic in the Orient by George Hamlin Fitch
He went downstairs, jumped into a carromata that was just rattling out of the court, and drove to the Intendencia.
From Caybigan by James Hopper
We had picked up the vernacular of the street carromata in Manila.
From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary Helen Fee
The carromata wheels were iron-tired, and jolted—well, like Manila street carromatas of that day.
From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary Helen Fee
He would be arrested for violating the ordinances and afterwards advertised in the newspapers, so the peaceful and prudent Basilio left the carromata and went his way on foot, carrying his valise.
From The Reign of Greed by Charles E. Derbyshire
The cocheros were washing down their carromatas preparatory to going out; the muchachos were galloping back, their ponies' flanks gleaming with salt water.
From Caybigan by James Hopper
The toy horses and the toy carromatas and quilices were there, and the four-horse wagons with a staring "U. S." on their blue sides.
From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary Helen Fee
The people to whom we applied even for the hiring of carromatas, etc., told our people that they had orders to supply nothing except by your orders.
From The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) by Dean C. Worcester
As a consequence, we had to rely largely on street carromatas.
From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary Helen Fee
The food issued at the front was mostly rice brought up in carromatas to within a few hundred yards of the trenches, when it was cooked by the women.
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount
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