Example sentences for: urdemalas

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

  • Ramón Laval gives a brief literary history of de Urdemalas and publishes a small series of tales collected in Chile in the late nineteenth century.

  • Because these tales were not—as far as we know—collected in the Renaissance and because, like ballads and songs, they must have been subject to endless variation and mutual interference, we cannot now know the Pedro de Urdemalas who endeared himself to the folk” (218).

  • But it is clear that Pedro de Urdemalas is a Hispano precursor to Don Cacahuate, el pelado, Tin Tan, Cantinflas, and an antecedent of Chicano joking behavior.

  • Cervantes wrote a play about him in 1615, Comedia Famosa de Pedro de Urdemalas, so we know Pedro de Urdemalas was already a folkloric character in the seventeenth century.

  • Wardropper states, “Pedro de Urdemalas is a shadowy, even elusive, figure in the oral tradition of Spanish folktales.


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