caballero
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A butcher’s daughter named Flaca, with her male cologne and her heartbreaking caballero swagger, cooks and cares for her friends.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2019
That way, she said, “the story of the handsome, dashing caballero figure will continue to be relevant.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2016
Always impeccably dressed, in a blazer complete with a pocket square and suspenders, Cordova is as dapper as he is gentlemanly, an authentic caballero of the old school.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2015
When a turn-of-the-century caballero inclined toward a passing beauty and murmured a loping compliment like this, the girl could walk away in disdain but could hardly fail to blush with pleasure.
From Time Magazine Archive
I know he’s talking to Papi, who says that after the way Washburn helped with Lucinda, he trusts ese caballero with his life.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
His Zorro dedicates himself to the equitable treatment of every citizen and rouses his fellow caballeros to practice a democratic form of noblesse oblige.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2020
Ramírez was a Mexican migrant who spent much of his life in California state mental hospitals and created curious, pattern-filled drawings of trains and caballeros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2017
Now I could refer to your editors as "bowlegged waddies," "brocklefaced bozos," "drugstore caballeros" or "maverick-roping rustlers," and perhaps accomplish nothing but a feeling of resentment on their part.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spanish knights or caballeros, often owning nothing but horse and armor, served to oust the Moors.
From Time Magazine Archive
They became horsemen, caballeros, men whose daily life was wrapped up in the ritual of horsemanship.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
