parandero
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Don Francisco's lupine dissimulation was perfect. A weatherbeaten parandero, an incorrigible roue and a guzzler ..."
- "Nazi infection took hold, of course, more easily among the usual weaklings, hotel-bar politicians and paranderos, or drunkards."
- "May I be damned in heaven and hell, I'm looking for that drunken parandero, that tramp, my capataz."
- "The following section will expand on the image of Zapata as a parandero, but with a special focus on his reputation as a seducer."
- "On the Caribbean coast, the Ganfuna communities are known for their paranda, most of whose practitioners (paranderos) are fairly elderly and live in Belize."
- "The possibility, however remote, was enough for one parandero to point this out as part of my education into the tradition. In retrospect, during the first night of parang in 1989, I learned far more than chords and rhythms."
Usage
- American usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.