Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A family of butterflies, coming between the Papilionidæ and the Nymphalidæ, and including the Lycæninæ and the Erycininæ. They have six perfect legs in the females and four in the males.
- A body of mounted police or gendarmerie in Mexico, established by President Diaz, composed largely of members of the revolutionary and criminal classes, but effective in the maintenance of order.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) The gossamer-winged butterflies; a family of small butterflies, including the hairstreaks, violets, and theclas.
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Examples
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A brief visit was made indeed, nevertheless I found great pleasure in going over the city and suburbs especially Guadaloupe and Chepultapec; and in observing the varied costumes and manners of the people, the stores and markets, the soldiers, notably the "rurales," those picturesque cavalrymen with their many buttons and pagoda hats.
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Later, he had changed it himself, for he had found the name of Fernandez hated by prefects of police, jefes politicos, and rurales.
The Mexican 2010
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And in the worst of it visions continued to flash and sparkle in his brain – long lines of railroad track that simmered across the desert; rurales and American constables, prisons and calabooses; tramps at water tanks – all the squalid and painful panorama of his odyssey after Rio Blanca and the strike.
The Mexican 2010
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He thinks of jefes politicos, rurales, the strike, the lockout, hunger, General Rosalio Martinez, the soldiers of Porfirio Diaz and their death-spitting rifles, of flatcars of bodies consigned to Vera Cruz as shark-food, his father and mother among them.
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For those with the budget and time, there are plenty of bed & breakfasts, small hotels, and even casa rurales farm stays to stay and linger around longer.
Cultural 2009
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For those with the budget and time, there are plenty of bed & breakfasts, small hotels, and even casa rurales farm stays to stay and linger around longer.
Medieval Trails 2009
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For those with the budget and time, there are plenty of bed & breakfasts, small hotels, and even casa rurales farm stays to stay and linger around longer.
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For those with the budget and time, there are plenty of bed & breakfasts, small hotels, and even casa rurales farm stays to stay and linger around longer.
January 2009 2009
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For those with the budget and time, there are plenty of bed & breakfasts, small hotels, and even casa rurales farm stays to stay and linger around longer.
Travelogue 2009
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January 11, 2009 12:33 AM casas rurales en cáceres said...
e-tools 2009
bilby commented on the word rurales
Butterflies with perfect legs or Mexican cowboy cops, you choose.
June 17, 2016