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Calles

[ kah-yes ]

noun

  1. Plu·tar·co E·lí·as [ploo-, tahr, -kaw e-, lee, -ahs], 1877–1945, Mexican general and statesman: president of Mexico 1924–28.


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Pray let me hear it: I hope it will go to the tune of one of our Passa-calles.

Velazquez painted the familiar figure of the water-seller, who is to be seen to-day in the calles of Seville, crying agua fresca.

Brantôme says a calle or calotte is "a cap," hence the phrase, Plattes comme des calles.

Amigo mio, it was that damned Antonio Calles who listened to us last night.

Durante una dos horas, en las calles inmediatas estos puntos rein un bullicio, una animacin y un movimiento indescriptibles.

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