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- noun Plural form of
manzanilla .
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Examples
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"manzanillas," which serve as food to the Indians in certain parts of
Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery Jules Verne 1866
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It's not an obvious summer aperitif but I tend to drink more finos and manzanillas when the sun shines than in the winter months.
Sherry's Joyous Value Will Lyons 2011
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Finos and manzanillas are the lightest and driest.
Sherry's Joyous Value Will Lyons 2011
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And he set to work to gather the manzanillas, and eat them greedily.
Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery Jules Verne 1866
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The small stream meandering through the grassy carpet gave a healthy freshness to its borders, and thereon grew shrubs of different kinds; myrtles, mastic bushes, and among others a quantity of manzanillas, which gave promise of a large crop of their wild apples.
Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery Jules Verne 1866
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Not only are finos and manzanillas perfect summer drinking, light and elegant, refreshing to the palate, they're also very reasonably priced for the quality they offer: even most of the supermarket own-brands are perfectly respectable.
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Other wildflowers that paint the forest landscape include manzanillas (or Asters and their relatives, as they're called north of the border), faralillos (columbines), orchids (orchídeas), spectacular bromeliads (cirulenches and gallos), nubes (sweet herbs), ferns (helechos), gallitos (spider plants), the indian paint-brushes (Castilleja spp.), wild marigolds (Tagetes spp.) and many others.
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Other wildflowers that paint the forest landscape include manzanillas (or Asters and their relatives, as they're called north of the border), faralillos (columbines), orchids (orchídeas), spectacular bromeliads (cirulenches and gallos), nubes (sweet herbs), ferns (helechos), gallitos (spider plants), the indian paint-brushes (Castilleja spp.), wild marigolds (Tagetes spp.) and many others.
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Personally, I love the stuff when it’s fresh (in particular finos and manzanillas), i.e., from a recently opened bottle.
Is sherry’s retro image ripe for a makeover? On public radio’s Marketplace | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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