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pinata

[peen-yah-tuh, pin-yah-; Sp. pee-nyah-tah]

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noun, plural pi·ña·tas

[-tuhz; Sp. -tahs] .

(in Mexico and Central America) a gaily decorated crock or papier-mâché figure filled with toys, candy, etc., and suspended from above, especially during Christmas or birthday festivities, so that children, who are blindfolded, may break it or knock it down with sticks and release the contents.

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1885–90; < Spanish: literally, pot < Italian pignatta, probably derivative of dial. pigna pinecone (from the pot's shape) < Latin pīnea, noun use of feminine of pīneus of the pine tree; see pine¹, -eous

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