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churro
[ choor-oh; Spanish choor-raw ]
noun
, Mexican Cooking.
, plural chur·ros [choor, -ohz, choor, -, r, aws].
- a long, slender, deep-fried pastry resembling a cruller.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of churro1
First recorded in 1925–30; from Spanish, perhaps after dialect churro (a kind of coarse-wooled sheep), the name for the inhabitants of the mountainous parts of Valencia, the approximate area where the pastry originated
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Example Sentences
This year there were no churros, none of the freedom to explore on their own, and no señoras to iron their underwear.
I took my churro from the pretty granny and paid her, taking a couple of quick bites of the dough before I turned around.
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Lester stood among them, eating a churro in a piece of wax-paper.
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