jacal
noun
(in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico) a hut with a thatched roof and walls consisting of thin stakes driven into the ground close together and plastered with mud.
jacales
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pluralof jacal.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
Screaming women and children hurried out of the jacales, and darted here and there.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
The jacales gave place to buildings of brick and stone, founded in many cases upon piles, and between them were streets and canals, giving access to the city from the lake.
From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Martin Hume
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 Martin Hume
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 Mary Edward Feehan
