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  • noun Plural form of tertulia.

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Examples

  • Buñuel, Dalí and Lorca used to meet here for martinis; and architects, designers, painters, scribblers and musos still meet here for tertulias public debates in its chandeliered and mirrored, faded decadent ambience.

    10 of the best barrio bars in Barcelona 2011

  • Buñuel, Dalí and Lorca used to meet here for martinis; and architects, designers, painters, scribblers and musos still meet here for tertulias public debates in its chandeliered and mirrored, faded decadent ambience.

    10 of the best barrio bars in Barcelona 2011

  • The frequent holidays afford them an outlet, and indoors they constantly see their friends and kindred at their tertulias.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • Alhambra, and frequents the evening tertulias of Dame Antonia, tells some fanciful traditions about three Moorish princesses, who were once shut up in this tower by their father, a tyrant king of

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Some of these I have heard her relate in the evening tertulias of Dame Antonia, at which she is occasionally a humble attendant.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Alhambra, and frequents the evening tertulias of Dame Antonia, tells some fanciful traditions about three Moorish princesses, who were once shut up in this tower by their father, a tyrant king of

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Some of these I have heard her relate in the evening tertulias of Dame Antonia, at which she is occasionally a humble attendant.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • The time for visiting is in the evening, when there are numbers of impromptu conversaziones -- or tertulias, as they are called -- of which the Dons are very fond, and in which very many of their evenings are passed.

    Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

  • As for the ladies, many of them might be taken for princesses in summer, but their winter tertulias are on a level with a porter's lodge where they play _julepe_.

    Youth and Egolatry P��o Baroja 1914

  • At the _tertulias_ his mother attended evenings in his company, it was enough for him to recite a fable or get off some piece of learning characteristic of a studious child eager to bring his school work into the conversation, for the women to rush upon him and smother him with kisses.

    The Torrent Entre Naranjos Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

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