Example sentences for: caló

How can you use “caló” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The connotation of gifted artistic performance, however, might stem from the gypsy culture in Andalusia whose dialect, caló , has words like duquende (possibly from the Russian dook ) meaning `spirit or ghost,' and duquendio , meaning `maestro.

  • The pachuco speech, a combination of English and Spanish, also called caló, was a fascinating fusion drawing from many linguistic sources.

  • Caló comes from the gypsy word zincaló, which is one of the idioms of the Spanish gypsies.

  • Caló was originally the language of the Spanish gypsies, or a dialect of Spanish showing traces of many languages acquired by the gypsies throughout their world wanderings.

  • This example of “book graffiti” is presented here because it is an excellent example of the use of Chicano Spanish influenced by caló and used at an opportune moment:


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