parera

/ ˈpɑːrɛrɑː /

noun

1. Also called: grey duck. a New Zealand duck, Anas superciliosa , with grey-edged brown feathers

Word History and Origins

Origin of parera¹

Māori

Example Sentences

The Georgian traditional-style home, built in 1937, was designed by architect Paul R. Williams for singer Grace Moore and her husband, Spanish actor Valentín Parera, according to the Paul R. Williams Project.

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Moore and Parera never lived in the home, however, and Power and his wife, Annabella, purchased it the same year it was built.

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One tap offers wine from Finca Parera, the work of Rubén Parera, a 37-year-old vintner who persuaded his own reluctant father to chop down cherry, plum and peach trees at his struggling orchard to make room for grapes.

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Isabel Parera, autora radicada en Puerto Rico, escribió el libro Cinco años y un día en el que recoge, a modo de crónica, el testimonio de su madre, Alicia Rodríguez, y otras mujeres que cumplieron una cadena carcelaria por actuar contra la Revolución.

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“Cuando mi madre empezó a nombrar a sus compañeras, las busqué y varias de ellas me contestaron. Hice investigación porque el libro no es solo una historia familiar sino que está enmarcado en el proceso de los cambios políticos que se daban en Cuba”, contó Parera.

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