Casas

American  

[kah-sahs] / ˈkɑ sɑs /

noun

1. Bartolomé de las Las Casas, Bartolomé de.

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Example Sentences

Consider Bartolomé de las Casas, the Dominican friar born in 1484 who described Christopher Columbus as a genocidal monster, or Michel de Montaigne, who wrote in the 1580s that even Indigenous people who practiced ritual cannibalism weren’t as evil or corrupt as the Europeans who conquered and enslaved them, and “who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.”

From Salon

France's Marie Wattel won the women's 50m fly in 26.01 and France's Yohann Ndoye Brouard won the men's 50m backstroke in 24.94 -- just six-hundredths of a second in front of American Shaine Casas.

From Barron's

There he met his second wife, Maria del Rosario Casas Dupuy, a cultural attaché at the Colombian embassy and a CIA asset who would later be charged as his accomplice.

From BBC

A couple of blocks south of my childhood home, down a street called Las Casas, sat a community of more than 200 houses, including some that were close to a century old, all still standing after the first day of the fire.

From The Wall Street Journal

Neighbors on Las Casas stayed in touch through a chat group.

From The Wall Street Journal