- a variation of Iztaccihuatl.
Ixtaccihuatl
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Off between the stately peaks of Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatepetl it is a speck against the fires of dawn.
From Time Magazine Archive
He saw Benito and Juana, Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl; he was on the pyramid and in it, and he saw the silver cone of Orizaba.
From The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
“That’s the famous one with the two volcanoes, Ixtaccihuatl, ‘the white woman’, and Popocatepetl, ‘the mountain that smokes’.
From Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Carr, Annie Roe
He wished to die too, so he caused to be constructed a great pyramid upon which he himself laid the beautiful Ixtaccihuatl.
From Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Carr, Annie Roe
Instead, he looked once more through the window and over the city at the vast white peaks of Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl silent and immutable, forever guarding the sky-line.
From The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
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