santos

IPA: sˈæntoʊs

Root Word: Santos

Examples of "santos" in Sentences

Rachel Rillo for The Wall Street Journal Mr. Tayag owns more than 50 Spanish colonial-era statues of saints known as santos, including this one from the 19th-century.
Elsewhere in Mexico, lip service is given to the old way of celebrating, but the new way often includes a perfunctory visit to the cemetery where loved ones are buried, a sigh and a shrug about the disappearance of the old ways, and a round or two or of chelas bien frías (ice cold beers) to toast los santos difuntos (the holy dead).
"Elsewhere in Mexico, lip service is given to the old way of celebrating, but the new way often includes a perfunctory visit to the cemetery where loved ones are buried, a sigh and a shrug about the disappearance of the old ways, and a round or two or of chelas bien frías (ice cold beers) to toast los santos difuntos (the holy dead)."