Definitions

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  • noun A cigar, especially one of which all the tobacco originates from the same country.

Etymologies

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From Spanish puro, originally cigarro puro.

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Examples

  • ¡Si, como no! But what I will always remember most about this particular party was the proud and handsome Maya puro from a remote Indian village near the ancient and mysterious ruins of Palenque.

    Dancing with the Maya: una fiestita in Copoya 2001

  • ¡Si, como no! But what I will always remember most about this particular party was the proud and handsome Maya puro from a remote Indian village near the ancient and mysterious ruins of Palenque.

    Dancing with the Maya: una fiestita in Copoya 2001

  • And for those who claimed a filipinio and not a pacfan they're are just stupid litch keep on sucking blood 'and sucking dirty freak. lol .. a fililpino, a pac haters? oh no dude wake up and go home wherever you belong, get lost assle. destroy yourself. if u are "puro" filipino a boxing lover u never allow your countrymen to have that kind of cretism specially pacquiao.

    MVN 2008

  • Near Piazza Navona, Gelateria del Teatro sells delicious and exotic home-made flavors, including a knock-out "puro" bittersweet chocolate (Via di San Simone 70; Tel.

    Rome With Kids 2010

  • In this preset show, there was little room for, nor much evidence of, eye-catching individual performances by dancers in the grip of the momentary frenzy familiar to flamenco puro .

    A Broad View of Flamenco Robert Greskovic 2011

  • Audiences looking to get their flamenco puro , as pure and traditional as possible — in the form of an intense, improvisatory, and mostly solo art of music, song and dance — won't find their expectations met here.

    A Broad View of Flamenco Robert Greskovic 2011

  • In the evening the Malecon downtown is almost puro Mexicano.

    mazatlan.... 2009

  • A caixa preta da maior empresa brasileira, quando aberta exalará um mau cheiro insuportável de desmando, corrupção, uso de dinheiro público para eleições, custos publicitários superfaturados e desnecessários, má gestão do governo nos negócios da empresa, e roubo puro e simples, como o fez o Victor Martins irmão do Ministro Franklin Martin, que não deve ser o único.

    Global Voices in English » Brazil: Petroleum, elections and poverty matters 2009

  • Sei que sou mestiço e não tenho culpa de ser, e a miscigenação existe desde a chegada dos portugueses, não sou o primeiro índio não puro e não serei o último.

    Global Voices in English » Brazil: Indian writers and poets on the blogosphere 2009

  • Mesmo não sendo índio puro, quero dizer que tenho orgulho de ser o que sou e não podemos ter vergonha, meso que a sociedade nos discriminem.

    Global Voices in English » Brazil: Indian writers and poets on the blogosphere 2009

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