juego de cañas
juego de cañas noun: a Spanish and Latin American game in which participants on horseback attempt to hit one another with canes.
Noun
juego de cañas (uncountable)
- A Spanish and Latin American game in which participants on horseback attempt to hit one another with canes.
- After our breakfaſt, the Indian ſhewed us a little ſport in the Market place, running races on horſe-back, and playing at Iuego de Canna’s^([sic]), which is to meet on horſeback, with broad Targets to defend their heads and ſhoulders while paſſing by they hurley Canes,or darts one at another, which...1648, Thomas Gage, The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: Or, a New Survey of the West-India’s, London: R. Cotes, page 96
- the juego de cañas was above all an aesthetic performance featuring elaborate meaneuvers on horseback and involving little actual violence2012, Teofilo F. Ruiz, A King Travels: Festive Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain, Princeton University Press, page 213
juego de cañas meaning in Marathi
juego de cañas in Marathi
- Translations
- ह्वेगो दे कान्यास hvego de kānyās
Forms of juego de cañas
| alternative form (obsolete) | juego de cannas |
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Origin of juego de cañas
Borrowed from Spanish juego de cañas (literally “game of canes”).
Questions about juego de cañas
- What does juego de cañas mean?
- Juego de cañas means a Spanish and Latin American game in which participants on horseback attempt to hit one another with canes.
- What is juego de cañas in Marathi?
- Juego de cañas in Marathi is ह्वेगो दे कान्यास (hvego de kānyās). See Juego de cañas meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is juego de cañas?
- Juego de cañas is a noun.
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