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- noun Plural form of
Sevillan .
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The Sevillans are perhaps inclined to stoutness, but that is a charm in their lover's sight, and often have a little down on the upper lip, than which, when it amounts to no more than a shadow, nothing can be more enchanting.
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919
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The Sevillans dance on every possible occasion, and nothing pleases them more than the dexterity of professionals.
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919
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Youth and beauty drive, for every one in Seville of the least pretension to gentility keeps a carriage; the Sevillans, characteristically, may live in houses void of every necessity and comfort, eating bread and water, but they will have a carriage to drive in the _paseo_.
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919
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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries several Spanish poets, mostly Sevillans, went to Mexico.
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