Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of butchering or slaughtering.
- noun The place where cattle are slaughtered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Western U. S. A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow.
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- noun US, Western US A place where
animals areslaughtered for theirhides andtallow .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Zapotitlan, in southern Puebla, home of the annual autumn goat slaughter, or matanza, is famous for its barbacoa, in which the meat is cooked in avocado leaves.
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Zapotitlan, in southern Puebla, home of the annual autumn goat slaughter, or matanza, is famous for its barbacoa, in which the meat is cooked in avocado leaves.
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All this after my participation in a "matanza" where we killed six pigs and made aroudn 300 pounds of sausage in Southern Maryland.
Italian Sausage 2007
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One of the characteristic dishes of this region is mole de caderas, a goat and vegetable mole that is especially popular during la matanza, the annual October slaughter of the goats.
Culinary travel in the Mixteca Poblana: The avocado route 2009
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(For more on this event, see A yearly culinary ritual: La matanza.)
Culinary travel in the Mixteca Poblana: The avocado route 2009
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One of the characteristic dishes of this region is mole de caderas, a goat and vegetable mole that is especially popular during la matanza, the annual October slaughter of the goats.
Culinary travel in the Mixteca Poblana: The avocado route 2009
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(For more on this event, see A yearly culinary ritual: La matanza.)
Culinary travel in the Mixteca Poblana: The avocado route 2009
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Que otro nombre darle a este pueblo que se rasga las vestiduras frente a la matanza del hipopótamo - que es lamentable, eso ni dudarlo - pero que guarda un silencio aterrador frente al asesinato de seres humanos.
Global Voices in English » Colombia: The Hunt for Pablo Escobar’s Hippo 2009
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Many many years ago for my younger brother's baptism in Albuquerque we had a matanza and roasted a whole pig underground, head and all.
How to make cow head barbacoa | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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He used the Spanish word for massacre, matanza, similar to the Italian, mattanza, used to depict the bluefin tuna plunder.
The Center for Public Integrity: 'Free-for-all' decimates fish stocks in the southern Pacific The Center for Public Integrity 2012
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