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- noun Alternative spelling of
araba .
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Examples
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After the blood bath the person moved to the shower and was again anointed and cleansed from aroba, or the influences of the outsiders.
Jay's Journal Dr. Beatrice Sparks 2010
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He selected the most beautiful maid from fifty or a hundred, and gave her to him who chose her, in exchange for an aroba of wine, or oil, or for a pig: and similarly a handsome boy, chosen from among two hundred or three hundred, for the same amount.
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt
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The amount of the consumptions of the mines that are worked is also unknown; but it is known that the gunpowder costs the operators $9 an aroba [of 25 pounds], of lead, $12
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He then extracted about half an aroba of ore, and sold it in Jauja, in order to pay the tax levied on him.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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In Huanta and Anco they are small in size, and black or brown in color, and contain merely one aroba.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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If the administrator find the tobacco well prepared, he pays the cultivator three piastres for the aroba of twenty-five pounds weight.
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If the administrator find the tobacco well prepared, he pays the cultivator three piastres for the aroba of twenty-five pounds weight.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Over these she wore a Spanish aroba, or twenty -- five pounds weight of gold chains, saints, and crucifixes, and a large black velvet patch, of the size of a wafer, on each temple, which I found, by the by, to be an ornament very much in fashion amongst the fair of Panama.
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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As I returned by the east side of the lake, the splendid high farming-lands that extend from the shore to the foot of the mountain were strikingly in contrast with the flatness and barrenness of the plain on the water-side, which is so slightly elevated above the level of the salt water that a few inches of rise in the laguna spreads out an immense sheet of saline water, and yet there is not a solitary evaporating vat where there is an unlimited demand for the evaporated article at fourteen shillings the _aroba_.
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In Tarma and Huenuco the aroba (twenty-five pounds) costs at an average six Spanish dollars; add to this the carriage to Lima, the freight to Europe, custom-house duties, &c., and this price would be nearly doubled.] [Footnote 101: The whole valley of Vitoc can furnish only two muskets, and these are in as useless a state as possible.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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