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See also: Adelita
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
adelita (plural adelitas)
- A female soldier during the Mexican revolution
- 1988 July 15, David Fremon, “Look-Alike Contest”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- An employee of the city's Latino Affairs Commission, she looks like an adelita (a woman soldier and camp follower) in her blouse, long skirt, and sash crisscrossing her chest.
Translations[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the name Adelita.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
adelita f (plural adelitas)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: adelita
Further reading[edit]
- “adelita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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