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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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