tienda
Americannoun
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tiendas
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Growing up in Wenatchee, a small city in Washington state known as “the Apple Capital of the World,” I knew the importance of remittances from weekly trips to the tienda mexicana.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
On the northwest corner, a Mexican bakery selling cookies, pastries and breads sits next to a Mexican-style tienda selling ice-cold slushies known as raspados in flavors like mango and tamarind.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2016
They did, opening Latin America's first tienda de descuento in Mexico City.
From Time Magazine Archive
TRD, appropriately enough, stands for tienda recaudacion en divisas -- literally, "store to rake in the dollars."
From Time Magazine Archive
In my disgust I pounded my way into every hovel that was said to be a tienda.
From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Franck, Harry Alverson
I visited a mosque and an old church, several tiendas, a shopping mall, a soul food joint and several homes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2022
They relax and shop on a stretch of Atlanta highway that can feel closer to Michoacán than Macon, with tiendas and restaurants offering hyper-regionalized tastes of home.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2021
As are those random tiendas at the center of commerce on Sunset Avenue which close every other week, only to be replaced by a new coffee shop.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2015
The jefatura fills one side of the little plaza; around the other side are tiendas, with high-pitched single roofs, and private houses.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Starr, Frederick
Along the sides were tiendas, school, etc., well built adobes and plastered over with tinted plaster.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Starr, Frederick
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