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  • noun Plural form of tel.

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Examples

  • Towns of rough-hewn stone glittering in the morning sun atop 'tepes' -- also known as tels, places that aren't natural hills, where the accrued detritus of civilization elevate small villages or more often lay abandoned now that modernity has arrived.

    The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely 2009

  • Towns of rough-hewn stone glittering in the morning sun atop 'tepes' -- also known as tels, places that aren't natural hills, where the accrued detritus of civilization elevate small villages or more often lay abandoned now that modernity has arrived.

    The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely 2009

  • There we would have bike valets 24-7, along with free bike-tels, where our steeds would be cleaned, greased and oiled in a hermetically sealed environment.

    By 2040 Cycling Will Be Easy … Sort of « PubliCola 2010

  • Most appear to be no-tels, but there's one at the Pemex station on the right-hand side of the highway, immediately after the Y when you are coming into Maz from the south, that appears to be an overnight stop to long-haul truckers.

    Mazatlan hotel near cuota going north 2009

  • I've always thought that Mexican motels, as you define them, were more like "no-tels".

    Motels vs Hotels 2009

  • Most appear to be no-tels, but there's one at the Pemex station on the right-hand side of the highway, immediately after the Y when you are coming into Maz from the south, that appears to be an overnight stop to long-haul truckers.

    Mazatlan hotel near cuota going north 2009

  • I've always thought that Mexican motels, as you define them, were more like "no-tels".

    Motels vs Hotels 2009

  • I've always thought that Mexican motels, as you define them, were more like "no-tels".

    Motels vs Hotels 2009

  • Most appear to be no-tels, but there's one at the Pemex station on the right-hand side of the highway, immediately after the Y when you are coming into Maz from the south, that appears to be an overnight stop to long-haul truckers.

    Mazatlan hotel near cuota going north 2009

  • I've always thought that Mexican motels, as you define them, were more like "no-tels".

    Motels vs Hotels 2009

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