duende

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  • As usual, it as a blaze of colour, flamenco music and dancing, lots of food, drink and ingredient x - duende - that intangible spirit of Andalucia. —  Ibiza Spotlight News and Views
  • As Rodericks would say, the man just lacks "duende" ... —  Blog updates
  • Tuesday's column about my man-fan crush on the Ravens 'All-Pro safety Ed Reed and the reason for it -- the duende that lives in him. —  Blog updates
  • So here's my suggestion on how we give duende the Charm City spin; it's now Eduende! —  Blog updates
  • Conversations about Koch with his long-time assistant, the poet Jordan Davis, confirmed my intuition Koch might have been parodying Lorca's duende with the concept of the hasos. —  The Chicago Blog
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  1. Spanish dialectal, charm, from Spanish, ghost, from Old Spanish, owner, proprietor, from duen de (casa), lord of (a house) : duen, lord (from Latin dominus; see dem- in Indo-European roots) + de, of (from Latin dē; see de-).
 

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