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bota

[boh-tuh, boh-tah] / ˈboʊ tə, ˈboʊ tɑ /


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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 George Henry Borrow

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

Like Jake before us, we step out of the bodega to find a shop that sells wine botas.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

“Kids are now wearing their botas to school or their tejanas and starched jeans.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

“Now, to see anybody with their tejanas and botas just on a random day at the mall is super cool.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

Calibre 50’s “Corrido de Juanito” plays on the TV, a sorrowful song rich with accordion about not being able to return to Mexico but still wearing a tejana and botas in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

His long yellow botas were laced with silver, and his saddle was so loaded with the same metal that only a Californian horse could have carried it.

From The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton


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