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Definition of Cascos
1. casco [n] - See also: casco
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cascos
Literary usage of Cascos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The United Service (1902)
"It was a dispiriting thing to see one of those brown-colored cascos filled ...
We could see the cascos start towards the beach, and then we lost sight of ..."
2. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Baretti (1851)
"Lavar á uno los cascos, (Met.) To flatter, to tickle one's vanity. ... á uno de
cascos, (Met.) To fill one's head with idle notions of grandeur. ..."
3. Filipino Popular Tales by Dean Spouill Fansler (1921)
"This time he had with him fourteen cascos full of gold. ... So in the dead of
night he went out to the cascos, but he could learn nothing there. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two Parts ...by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto (1827)
"Quebrar os cascos, to break Ihe skull ; also lo plague, ... Fulano tem bons
cascos, such a one bas a good head ; for Ihe mosl part ironically. ..."
5. Campaigning in the Philippines by Karl Irving Faust, Peter MacQueen (1899)
"M., Lawton, with eight launches, seventeen cascos, and two bancas left San ...
It was an interesting sight to watch the hulks of the black cascos lying ..."
6. An Observer in the Philippines: Or, Life in Our New Possessions by John Bancroft Devins (1905)
"The cascos are really lighters, although they are long rather than broad, ...
It is a marvel how the children who live on the cascos keep from falling ..."
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