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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

I heard her sigh, and she must have shuddered too when she thought of Ultima living alone in the loneliness of the wide llano.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

The llano was so quiet I could hear the drone of the grasshoppers and crickets in the grass.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

I dreaded to think of a time when I could not walk upon the llano and feel like the eagle that floats on its skies: free, immortal, limitless.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

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

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2024

In many ways, he said of the llanos, “it’s like old times here.”

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

On the far plains, the llanos, that stretch from the Caribbean coastal Andes southward to the jungles of the Orinoco, the rains had ceased.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has a sluggish course across the llanos for about 300 m., and is navigable throughout its length.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various




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