Definition of Cabrillas

1. cabrilla [n] - See also: cabrilla

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cabrillas

cabrales
cabre
cabree
cabrees
cabrerite
cabresta
cabrestas
cabresto
cabrestos
cabretta
cabrettas
cabrie
cabries
cabriite
cabrilla
cabrillas (current term)
cabriole
cabrioles
cabriolet
cabriolets
cabrit
cabrito
cabrits
cabs
cabstand
cabstands
cabulance
caburns
cabécou

Literary usage of Cabrillas

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

1. A Handbook for Travellers in Spain by Richard Ford (1855)
"The road now enters the Cabreras or cabrillas range, which separates Castile from ... From the heights of the cabrillas the sunny plains open, studded with ..."

2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"On the coast of southern California are also species called cabrillas, fine, large, ... The cabrillas and their relatives are almost all American, ..."

3. The Diary of a Cavalry Officer in the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaign, 1809 by William Tomkinson (1894)
"... your son's return to the 16th Light Dragoons. June 14th. The army advanced four short leagues. Headquarters of the army, cabrillas; of the cavalry, ..."

4. The Natural & Moral History of the Indies by José de Acosta (1880)
"There are others, the like I doe not thinke to have seene in these partes, as those which they doe call cabrillas,6 which doe somewhat resemble the ..."

5. A History of the Peninsular War by Charles William Chadwick Oman (1902)
"The route by Tarancon and the cabrillas, by which the army had reached Valencia, was terribly difficult: clearly it would be necessary to force again the ..."

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