hondonada
Spanish
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edithondonada f (plural hondonadas)
- low valley, gully, rift valley
- 1891, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ángel Guerra:
- Reunirse en Atocha, para subir luego a dar el ataque a las tropas monárquicas, o esperarlas en aquella hondonada, parecíame a mí una gran pifia. Pero no me atreví a contradecir a los militares.
- Joining up in Atocha, then going on to attack the pro-monarchic troops, or waiting for them in that depression, seemed to me a great error. But I dared not contradict the soldiers.
Further reading
edit- “hondonada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28