Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Spanish long measure.

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Examples

  • Esta pérola literária, plena de sensualidade, proveio do livro Bedroom Windows, romance pulp erótico escrito por Arthur Adlon, muito provávelmente o pseudónimo de um escritor tarefeiro que ganhava uns trocos a escrever literatura de cordel.

    A borrachinha do Lápis Artur 2007

  • Talked about the Long Tail more, Brazilian literatura de cordel and the fact my maternal uncles used to be typographers, and much more, before returning to Craft Cottage to await Mum's return with Nan from the music concert they'd both been to.

    missed one jinty 2006

  • Individual tales of shipwreck emerged in 16th-century Portugal as “string literature,” or literature de cordel, cheap pamphlets strung on a cord in the doors of shops in Lisbon.

    A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

  • Try to get a little tomato of the Type (Nova-2), a little bit of seed so that you may try it in at least 10 cordless [each cordel is 414.2 square meters] at your place.

    PEASANT COOPERATIVE MEETING 1980

  • If cane is planned on small plots, techniques cannot be employed and man must continue cleaning one cordel a day under these condition.

    1970 SUGAR HARVEST RALLY 1969

  • We can say that the problem created by weeds is one of the hardest in sugarcane agriculture because there are always more persons who are more enthusiastic over cutting cane than weeding the cane fields, with such warm weather [applause], with very low productivity because on occasions a man has to work hard to weed one cordel a day.

    1970 SUGAR HARVEST RALLY 1969

  • It will not be the man with the hoe who weeds a cordel a day -- this is not the way to solve the problems of any nation.

    14TH ANNIVERSARY-ATTACK ON MONCADA BARRACKS 1967

  • Tiene once quarteles ó manzanas bien largas y dispuestos con calles á cordel yá (113 r.) todos vientos, y puede llegar su poblacion á 800 familias.

    Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890

  • In every coterie of water-carriers, or mozos de cordel, there will be one found innocent enough to believe that the Magi are coming to Madrid that night, and that a proper respect to their rank requires that they must be met at the city gate.

    Castilian Days John Hay 1870

  • "Life was hard, very hard," says J Borges, the most famous modern-day cordel poet.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

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