norteamericano
Americannoun
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of norteamericano
First recorded in 1835–45; from Spanish: “North American”; see north ( def. )
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A number called America! lets the hot air out of the norteamericano ideal of freedom: Free to do anything you choose Free to wait tables and shine shoes.
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Though he shares the passion of so many norteamericano writers for bullfighting, he also exposes it as a miserably corrupt racket whose only honorable figure all too often is the bull.
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A much-impressed norteamericano wonders what else is hidden in the Latin trunk.
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In the warmth of the uproarious welcome for the norteamericano President, old animosities and old suspicions melted perceptibly.
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What this show presents is not some fiction of a general cultural ethos but rather the work of a number of talents underknown by norteamericanos, some of whom have some things in common.
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Yet it also provides a looking glass of sorts for norteamericanos.
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"I turned my gun in to the norteamericanos" he explained.
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They told the visiting norteamericanos what they, with local variations, have heard and are likely to hear everywhere.
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