quebrado

But if asked why are the women of this land [New Spain] more given to eating earth and cacao than women in different provinces, I would respond that some do it for pure vice, pretending only to bring about a broken color [traer quebrado el color], (which they call ladies 'color) .87

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Se o seu amigo for universitário quebrado e chorão, aí sim deixa doar R$50.

Amid Brazil's Flood, Bloggers Form Solidarity Networks 2008

Imaginem o som quebrado de um velho disco mono de 33 rotações a tocar numa velha grafonola ora, eis uma palavra que já está em vias de extinção.

Every time we say goodbye Artur 2005

Um silêncio pesado de meditação, quebrado apenas pelo ruído da tempestade, pelo ruído da chuva contra as janelas em ogiva da igreja.

Fio do Horizonte Artur 2005

The Spanish text of his book, written in Franqui's version of the Cuban pie quebrado, or broken meter, reads something like a prose poem.

Inside the Revolution Leiken, Robert S. 1984

The price of white sugar is higher when sold alone than in the sale called surtido, in which three-fifths of white sugar and two-fifths of quebrado are combined in the same lot.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Reckoning in a great sugar-fabric of the Havannah 25 caballerias or 325 hectares for a produce of from 32,000 to 40,000 cases, we find 1130 or 1420 kilogrammes of refined sugar (blanco and quebrado) per hectare.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

In soils that can be watered, or where plants with tuberose roots have preceded the cultivation of the sugar-cane, a caballeria of fertile land yields, instead of 1500 arrobas, 3000 or 4000, making 2660 or 3340 kilogrammes of sugar (blanco and quebrado) per hectare.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

In every loaf or reversed cone the upper part yields the white sugar; the middle part the yellow sugar, or quebrado; and the lower part, or point of the cone, the cucurucho.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

The refiners (maestros de azucar) endeavour to make every loaf of sugar yield five-ninths of white, three-ninths of quebrado, and one-ninth of cucurucho.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851