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  • I wasn't sure if jarro is the correct word for "mug".

    Tepache 2006

  • Early as is the hour, the people have all arisen; and not a few of the brown, rebosa-clad, short-skirted wenches are already on their way, _jarro_ on crown, to the fountain.

    The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

  • Unfortunately these people generally end by too frequent applications to the jarro of pulque, or what is worse to the pure spirit known by the name of chinguirite; the consequence of which is, that from music and dancing and rose-becrowning, they proceed to quarrelling and jealousy and drunkeness, which frequently terminates in their fighting, stabbing each other, or throwing each other into the canal.

    Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

  • Unfortunately these people generally end by too frequent applications to the jarro of pulque, or what is worse to the pure spirit known by the name of _chingturite; _ the consequence of which is, that from music and dancing and rose-becrowning, they proceed to quarrelling and jealousy and drunkenness, which frequently terminates in their fighting, stabbing each other, or throwing each other into the canal.

    Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843

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