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llano

[lah-noh, yah-naw] / ˈlɑ noʊ, ˈjɑ nɔ /




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We wanna go down to the llano to see if they practice homogamy, but dunno how to get there.

From Washington Post Sep. 16, 2021

Besides Fruehaufs highballing twice daily to Calabozo, Arocha had ten white-painted DC-3s flying chilled beef to the capital from distant llano towns like Ciudad Bolivar, on the Orinoco, and San Fernando de Apure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Accept my aegis, Reyna Ramirez-Are llano, said the voice.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

She could not see beauty in the llano and she could not understand the coarse men who lived half their lifetimes on horseback.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

The llano had come alive with spring, and it was comforting to walk in the hills and see the new birth take root and come-alive-green.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

Dr. Walschburger stepped right through them as savanna hawks and caracaras, two common birds of prey on the llanos, swooped excitedly over the smoldering pasture, hunting escaping rodents and reptiles.

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2024

“We want to showcase the great diversity” of llanos culture, Ms. Veydó said.

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2024

But in recent weeks, officials said, he had been pining to come home and listening to music from the his boyhood home in the "llanos" or plains in central Venezuela.

From Reuters Feb. 22, 2013

The invitation was as irresistible as it was unexpected to the 18 nomadic Cuiba Indians who had been wandering the llanos, the vast prairies that stretch from the Andes to the Orinoco River.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like this, too, ubiquitous—seen today scouring the sandy plains of the Platte, to-morrow bounding over the broad llanos of Texas, a thousand miles to the southward!

From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid




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