bombilla

American  

[bawm-bee-yah, -lyah] / bɔmˈbi jɑ, -ljɑ /

noun

Spanish.

bombillas plural

1. a tube or drinking straw with a strainer at one end, especially for drinking maté.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bombillas
  plural

Etymology

Origin of bombilla

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

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bombilla bombillas

They continued the Guaraní custom of sharing the same gourd and bombilla, a ritual that continues today.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2012

Each participant drains the gourd through the same perforated straw, which the Spanish dubbed a bombilla.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2012

If the family is wealthy this will be served in a heavy silver cup and bombilla, or sucking tube, of the same metal.

From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by Ray, G. Whitfield

The bombilla is for the purpose of straining the infusion—which is of a greenish-brown—as the powder would otherwise get into the mouth.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

You suck it into your mouth through a bombilla, or silver tube, which latter, if you are not careful, is apt to get so hot as often to burn your lips.

From Blanco y Colorado Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay by Tetley, William C.

Again a tiny fire is kindled; the kettle hung over it; and the matés, with the bombillas, called into requisition.

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.

Then the bombillas are inserted, and the process of sucking commences; suspended only at intervals while the more substantial mutton and maize-bread are being masticated.

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.