jacales
- plural of jacal.
Example Sentences
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In El Trotche, families of ten and twelve members crowd into the dingy, single-room, windowless jacales.
From Time Magazine Archive
They saw the women in their miserable huts, or jacales, built of a few sticks driven into the ground and covered with old blankets and thatches of straw.
From Mary's Rainbow by Feehan, Mary Edward
To-day the great pyramid casts its shadow toward a small village of jacales, upon a semi-arid plain.
From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Hume, Martin
Screaming women and children hurried out of the jacales, and darted here and there.
From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)
A few of the houses are built of the usual adobe bricks; the major portion—there may be a dozen or so—are simply jacales, as the Mexican wattle-hut is termed.
From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Hume, Martin
