luces
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The dressing ritual concludes as she puts on her ornate scarlet and gold jacket – the traje de luces, or suit of lights.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2017
He made his debut in Mexico in 1961 in a borrowed traje de luces, harbouring professional ambitions until he was gored and battered in Juarez by a beast named Conquistador.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2017
One January day, he wrote, in a mix of Spanish and English: “Hector olvido luces ‘on’ —dead battery” after I left my car lights on while studying at UC Irvine.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2013
All his successors gone before him hath done’t; and all his ancestors that come after him may: they may 15 give the dozen white luces in their coat.
From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge
That is settled, Lewin"—with a nod to the milliner—"the silver fleurs de luces for the wedding mantua.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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