alambre
Meaning
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- (masculine) wire (metal formed into a long, narrow thread)
- (masculine) wire (a thread of metal)
- (masculine) alambre (Mexican food dish consisting of meat topped with cheese, salsa, and chopped bacon, pepper and onion)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
a‧lam‧bre
Pronounced as (IPA)
/aˈlambɾe/
Etymology
From Old Spanish alambre, arambre, aramne (“bronze”), from Vulgar Latin *arāmen, variant of Late Latin aerāmen, derived from Latin aer-.
New
alambrar
to put a wire fence around
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