Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In South America, the leading animal of a mule-train, usually distinguished by some head-ornament, chiefly by a bell dangling from the neck. In Spain the term is also used to designate the rope or leather band by which two mules are tied together; and for a wooden support in the shape of a pillar or column.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun S. America An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules.

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  • noun An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules.

Etymologies

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From Spanish

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Examples

  • Acting as "padrino" or "madrina" - Spanish for godfather and godmother - or sponsor, family or friends take on a range of responsibilities, providing and paying for parts of the festivities, including food, photos and the couple's clothing, said Araceli Ulloa, 19, of Los Angeles, whose family often helps couples in such ways.

    Durangoherald.com 2010

  • Acting as "padrino" or "madrina" - Spanish for godfather and godmother - or sponsor, family or friends take on a range of responsibilities, providing and paying for parts of the festivities, including food, photos and the couple's clothing, said Araceli Ulloa, 19, of Los Angeles, whose family often helps couples in such ways.

    Durangoherald.com 2010

  • Acting as "padrino" or "madrina" - Spanish for godfather and godmother - or sponsor, family or friends take on a range of responsibilities, providing and paying for parts of the festivities, including food, photos and the couple's clothing, said Araceli Ulloa, 19, of Los Angeles, whose family often helps couples in such ways.

    Durangoherald.com 2010

  • Acting as "padrino" or "madrina" - Spanish for godfather and godmother - or sponsor, family or friends take on a range of responsibilities, providing and paying for parts of the festivities, including food, photos and the couple's clothing, said Araceli Ulloa, 19, of Los Angeles, whose family often helps couples in such ways.

    Durangoherald.com 2010

  • Acting as "padrino" or "madrina" - Spanish for godfather and godmother - or sponsor, family or friends take on a range of responsibilities, providing and paying for parts of the festivities, including food, photos and the couple's clothing, said Araceli Ulloa, 19, of Los Angeles, whose family often helps couples in such ways.

    Durangoherald.com 2010

  • She has been chosen as the "madrina" or "godmother" of the new Queen Elizabeth ship.

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • Consequently, I was invited to their homes for family parties, asked to stand up with one young worker at his high school graduation as the madrina, and was a witness at the wedding of two others.

    Day of the Holy Cross? 2007

  • Consequently, I was invited to their homes for family parties, asked to stand up with one young worker at his high school graduation as the madrina, and was a witness at the wedding of two others.

    Day of the Holy Cross? 2007

  • Consequently, I was invited to their homes for family parties, asked to stand up with one young worker at his high school graduation as the madrina, and was a witness at the wedding of two others.

    Day of the Holy Cross? 2007

  • Consequently, I was invited to their homes for family parties, asked to stand up with one young worker at his high school graduation as the madrina, and was a witness at the wedding of two others.

    Day of the Holy Cross? 2007

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  • The Biblioburro and learned madrina

    Meet secretly behind the cantina.

    For better or worse

    They bray out their verse,

    A sonnet for him, hers a sestina.

    April 13, 2016