Definition of Criollos

1. criollo [n] - See also: criollo

Lexicographical Neighbors of Criollos

crinoid
crinoidal
crinoidean
crinoideans
crinoids
crinoline
crinolined
crinolines
crinophagy
crinose
crinosities
crinosity
crinum
crinums
criollo
criollos (current term)
criosphinx
criosphinxes
cripe
cripes
crippled
crippled strain
crippleness
crippler
cripplers
cripples
crippleware
crippling
cripplingly

Literary usage of Criollos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Southern California Quarterly by Los Angeles County Pioneers of Southern California, Historical Society of Southern California (1884)
"16, of the Paris reprint, Gage says : " Los que nacen allí de padres españoles, i que loä Europeos llaman criollos para distinguirlos de su clase, etc. ..."

2. Three Plays of the Argentine: Juan Moreira, Santos Vega, The Witches' Mountain by Silverio Manco, Luis Bayón Herrera, Julio Sánchez Gardel (1920)
"The dramas criollos had had a hard time of it even at the start. ... From the time when the dramas criollos took their place in the sun up to the present ..."

3. Spanish Reader of South American History by Edward Watson Supple (1917)
"... pasam todos estos criollos 1 io por ias armas: yo le aseguro a VS. que ninguno de los que ... venezolana fué al principio in obra de los criollos. ..."

4. The Anthropological Review by Anthropological Society of London (1863)
"... eluding only 298000 criollos or Whites, the greater number being ixed breeds, a powerful and turbulent party. ..."

5. Life and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk by Mary Alice Seymour (1870)
"I am working diligently ; and, next year, you shall have a musical ' Souvenir de la Havane,' and perhaps the effect these ojos criollos have upon me. ..."

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