bota

Example Sentences

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Dangling a bota around your neck in 2006?

From Time Magazine Archive

If Flake had his way, the next ironic accoutrement would be the bota bag.

From Time Magazine Archive

He blew it up, his cheeks puffing ahead of the wine-skin, and stood on the bota holding on to a chair.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

The hostess, however, who was present waiting, said, 'If the gentleman wish for wine, I have a bota nearly full, which I will instantly fetch.'

From The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain by Borrow, George Henry

The song is as unceasing as the bells, unless when interrupted by a pull at the wine bota, or by the narration of some wild story of bandit cruelty or contrabandist daring.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various