quebrada
Americannoun
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Southwestern U.S. a ravine.
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a brook.
Etymology
Origin of quebrada
1825–35; < Spanish, noun use of feminine past participle of quebrar to break ≪ Latin crepāre to clatter, crack, rattle
Example Sentences
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When he wears a slatted folding chair over his head like a jug band washboard and then beautifully executes the bent-back turn known as a vuelta quebrada, flamenco is reborn.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2014
This subsequent alteration of the quebrada resulted in the violation of the Clean Water Act.
From Time Magazine Archive
The quebrada in question, however, was of comparatively insignificant dimensions, being only about forty feet wide at the point where the survey line crossed it, and some four hundred feet deep.
From Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru by Prout, Victor
Sometimes a quebrada is several hundreds of feet in width, and of a depth so appalling as to unnerve the most hardy mountaineer.
From Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru by Prout, Victor
He himself was in sore doubt as to the identity of the quebrada which they were following.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
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