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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A corn tortilla rolled around a filling, such as beef, chicken, or cheese, into a thin cylinder and sometimes deep-fried.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A type of fried cylindrical tortilla or taco (Mexican food)

Etymologies

  1. From Mexican Spanish flauta, with same meaning, because of its shape, resembling a flute (Wiktionary)
  2. Spanish, flute, probably from Old Provençal flaüt; see flute. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “E pior, essa “grande marcha da coca” que está resultando na expulsão dos brasileiros, ocorre menos de um mês depois de Lula sancionar a Lei da Anistia Migratória, que autoriza a residência provisória de cidadãos estrangeiros em situação irregular no Brasil, beneficiando centenas de milhares de bolivianos que perambulam por aqui tocando flauta andina.”

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  • “The dancers, usually in a group of about a dozen or so, form two ranks and then, in response to simple melodies played on a small drum (nenetl) and reed flute (flauta), wind around to form a series of crosses (believed to represent the cardinal points) and circles (interpreted as either the passage of stars or of the sun).”

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  • “Definitely not the best flauta/taquito you'll have.”

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  • “Inicialmente composto por dois violões, uma flauta e um cavaquinho, o grupo começou adotando a polca-de-serenata, que trazia passagens modulantes em ritmo acelerado.”

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  • “No começo, o choro possuía improvisações, em que os violões criavam o ambiente para a flauta solar eo cavaquinho fazia um papel intermediário entre eles.”

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  • “California, a 22-year-old personal trainer, and he beat Joey Chestnut in a flauta-eating contest in his third event ever.”

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  • “Then Jorge's chef Don Jorge will share his grilled flauta method.”

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  • “Possuindo grandes canções, enriquecidas com flauta, fortes harmonias vocais e o belo trabalho de guitarra.”

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  • “Or get a little taste of everything with a sample platter ($11.99), which has cheese nachos, guacamole, sour cream, three chicken wings, cheese quesadilla, beef flauta and a chicken chimichanga.”

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  • “He boasts about how he can convert just three chicken legs into a chicken flauta dinner for his entire family.”

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