santo
Americannoun
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santos
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of santo
First recorded in 1630–40, for an earlier sense; from Spanish: literally, saint; from Latin sānctus
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It’s essentially something between olive oil and olio santo, except it’s a little sweeter and less spicy.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
To make my own, I alchemized a potpourri of sandalwood, hinoki wood, palo santo, mint, patchouli and tachibana orange.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
It’s such a cliché, but I’ve got this sunset out my window and my palo santo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
This pretty kit contains mountain sage, frankincense, myrrh and white copal resin; a Selenite stick; crystals and a palo santo stick for smudging.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
Each morning for the next two months, she played with the air currents high above her rocky little island, then streaked to her palo santo on Espanola Island.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
A National Historic Landmark, El Santuario de Chimayó is decorated with original examples of 19th century Hispanic religious folk art, including santos and religious frescoes.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
A wall relief featuring haloed saints painted on individual lengths of two-by-fours attached to a board of dappled color seems obliquely related to the santos tradition.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2012
Testimonios “The All-Powerful Hand of Christ”, a painted wood santos by Norberto Cedeño, is in this exhibition of “popular expression” at El Museo del Barrio.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2012
The 170 objects on display, mainly santos or devotional religious images, provide a most suggestive picture of the culture of the place and period.
From Time Magazine Archive
Between the windows some ancient wooden santos, and a couple of newer ones that had been carved and painted by the expatriate Snuffy Ledoux, were hanging.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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