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bombilla
[ bawm-bee-yah, -lyah ]
noun
, Spanish.
, plural bom·bi·llas [bawm-, bee, -yahs, -lyahs].
- a tube or drinking straw with a strainer at one end, especially for drinking maté.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bombilla1
First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences
The bombilla, a silver tube with a bulbous end pierced full of fine holes, is then inserted.
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Each drinker has his own gourd and bombilla, the latter being necessitated by the use of the leaf in the form of a powder.
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The mistress of the house and all her guests suck the aromatic fluid through the same pipe or bombilla.
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The beverage is then handed round to the company, each person being furnished with a bombilla.
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Women and old men sit immovable in the dust, the bombilla between their lips, in an ecstasy of mat.
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