bota
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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
They wonder whether it’s a random trend, like botas picudas, or a sincere attempt at re-indigenization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
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
But can Hollywood finally give us the botas?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2021
You may see limbs encased in calzoneros, and others in the heavy stamped leather botas of the Mexican horseman, resembling the greaves of warriors of the olden time.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid
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