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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 move lowered my father in the esteem of his compadres, the other vaqueros of the llano who clung tenaciously to their way of life and freedom.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

I left the river and ran across the llano; I felt light, like the wind, as my even strides carried me homeward.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

After I was born in Las Pasturas she persuaded my father to leave the llano and bring her family to the town of Guadalupe where she said there would be opportunity and school for us.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

Burning and grazing had shaped the ecosystem of the llanos for centuries.

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2024

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

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 map, the guerrillas hold a third of the country, but their third, the rolling, grassy eastern llanos, is thinly populated.

From Time Magazine Archive

It raced across the llanos, the savannas and the pampas and covered the high plateaus in a slow relentless growth.

From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore




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