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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

The summer came and burned me brown with its energy, and the llano and the river filled me with their beauty.

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 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

In December, Colombia declared a new national park in a corner of the llanos that borders the Manacacías River.

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

Besides, the lawyer argued, others had done the same thing and gone unpunished on the llanos, "where the law that counts is that of the fastest."

From Time Magazine Archive

The alternating wet and dry seasons are likewise to be found on the Pacific coastal plain, though this region is not entirely dry and vegetation never dries up as on the llanos.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various




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