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  • noun Plural form of batata.

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Examples

  • ` Come, lad, 'said I to him, ` content thee with eating of batatas [the Spanish word of which _potato_ is a corruption] and drinking of tobacco [smoking tobacco was originally termed

    Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • Instalação para Lays no Jackson Tunnel, em Chicago, mostra batatas a sair do tecto e a mensagem "Nossas batatas crescem mais perto do que imaginas".

    Archive 2009-08-01 Red 2009

  • Instalação para Lays no Jackson Tunnel, em Chicago, mostra batatas a sair do tecto e a mensagem "Nossas batatas crescem mais perto do que imaginas".

    Lays Red 2009

  • Now November was upon us, and we had kept All-hallow-mas, with roasting of skewered apples (like so many shuttlecocks), and after that the day of Fawkes, as became good Protestants, with merry bonfires and burned batatas, and plenty of good feeding in honor of our religion …

    Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November | Edwardian Promenade 2008

  • Now November was upon us, and we had kept All-hallow-mas, with roasting of skewered apples (like so many shuttlecocks), and after that the day of Fawkes, as became good Protestants, with merry bonfires and burned batatas, and plenty of good feeding in honor of our religion …

    2008 November | Edwardian Promenade 2008

  • Para acompanhar, servir com umas batatinhas de preferência também cozidas na cataplana, com toda aquela mistela a dar um sabor maravilhoso à carne e às batatas.

    Cataplana de Carne Artur 2005

  • Now November was upon us, and we had kept Allhallowmass, with roasting of skewered apples (like so many shuttlecocks), and after that the day of Fawkes, as became good Protestants, with merry bonfires and burned batatas, and plenty of good feeding in honour of our religion; and then while we were at wheat-sowing, another visitor arrived.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • I carried her on my back to mother; and then we dressed her all anew, and took her where she ordered us; but she did not tell us who she was, nor anything more than her Christian name, and that she was eight years old, and fond of fried batatas.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • I was glad enough to accept the ladle full of fried batatas, and to make the best of things, which is generally done by letting men have their own way.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • It is said that English potatoes, when planted at Quillimane on soil resembling this, in the course of two years become in taste like sweet potatoes (Convolvulus batatas), and are like our potato frosted.

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

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