quijada
quijada noun: jawbone (percussion instrument).
Noun
quijada (plural quijadas)
- jawbone (percussion instrument)
- In the rest of the film, along with drums, the quijada is used diegetically as well as non-diegetically to bridge transitions between scenes, working as a musical punctuation mark.2012, Yuna de Lannoy, “An Analysis of the Soundscape of Akira Kurosawa's Chambara Westerns”, in Kathryn Kalinak, editor, Music in the Western
Proper noun capitalized: Quijada
Quijada (plural Quijadas)
- A surname from Spanish.
- “Natural languages are adequate, but that doesn’t mean they’re optimal,” John Quijada, a fifty-three-year-old former employee of the California State Department of Motor Vehicles, told me. In 2004, he published a monograph on the Internet that was titled “Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a...2012 December 24, Joshua Foer, “Utopian for Beginners”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2018
Forms of quijada
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | quijadas |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Quijadas |
Origin of quijada
Borrowed from Spanish quijada.
Borrowed from Spanish Quijada.
Questions about quijada
- What does quijada mean?
- Quijada means jawbone (percussion instrument).
- What part of speech is quijada?
- Quijada can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of quijada?
- The plural of quijada is quijadas.
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