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- noun Plural form of
chigre .
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Examples
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Cider, or sidra, is the drink of choice in the Asturian mountains and served in chigres or sidrerias
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The rebels eluded the military, but the chigres, locusts, scorpions, and bush-spiders were ever ready to come half-way to meet them; likewise serpents and alligators proffered them the freedom of the forests and exhibited a hospitality almost excessive.
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She nibbled a sandwich, elbows on table, and asked if Montgomery still indulged itself in picnics, a form of recreation which she associated only with a youthful horror of chigres.
Otherwise Phyllis Meredith Nicholson 1906
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I still sat on the grass and I began to cuddle Billy's bare knees in the skirt of my dress so the chigres couldn't get at them.
The Melting of Molly Maria Thompson Daviess 1898
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The rebels eluded the military, but the chigres, locusts, scorpions, and bush-spiders were ever ready to come half-way to meet them; likewise serpents and alligators proffered them the freedom of the forests, and exhibited a hospitality almost excessive.
Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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