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pulquería

American  
[pool-ke-ree-ah] / ˌpul kɛˈri ɑ /

noun

Mexican Spanish.
  • pulquerías
    plural
  1. a tavern selling pulque.


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Just as I arrived at this satisfying conclusion I glanced up; we were passing a little pulquería whose name—painted gorgeously—was "The Orphan's Tear!"

From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

No doubt this would come with age, as well as the sour stink peculiar to the pulquerías of the cities.

From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck

Here I saw the first pulquerías, much like cheap saloons in appearance, with swinging doors, sometimes a pool table, and a bartender of the customary I-tell-yer-I'm-tough physiognomy.

From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck

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