olla
IPA: ˈɑɫʌ
noun
- A cooking-pot or earthenware jar used in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.
- A pot used for cooling water by evaporation in Latin America.
- An unglazed earthenware pot, buried to provide slow steady irrigation.
- A cinerary urn in ancient Rome.
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Examples of "olla" in Sentences
- The cinnamon flavored café de olla is particularly popular at night.
- The Spanish used a clay container called la olla, the Spanish word for pot.
- Unlike the ancient pottery of the area, this "olla" is of dab and wattle construction.
- Cafe de olla is a Mexican hot beverage brewed from dark-roasted coffee beans, piloncillo (a Mexican dark-brown sugar) and cinnamon.
- She missed what she called the olla-podrida phrases to which she had always been accustomed; and in her desire to behave with propriety, there was an unwonted sense of constraint.
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