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  • noun An outlaw or bandit, specially of Spain or Mexico.

Etymologies

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Spanish

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Examples

  • Thanks to your recipe for inspiration, I have a new bullet in my bandolero.

    Austin and basic black beans | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009

  • For a sawbones he was a most complete little bandolero, I'll say that for him, but what he said gave me the blue fits straight off.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Decked out in a strange combination of biker denim and bandolero chic, both gangs now look anachronistic, almost romantic.

    80 Blocks From Tiffany's is a million miles from today's gang life Justin Quirke 2010

  • Sharing cyberspace with Kimberly is like being in class with that really smart girl who always shows up well-rested and prepared for tests with a row of sharpened No. 2 pencils lined up like .45 slugs on Pancho Villa's bandolero while I slither into the testing theater on three hours of sleep with a dried circle of Tang around my mouth.

    I'm in a recommending mood Arbogast 2008

  • The couplets thus chanted, are often old traditional romances about the Moors, or some legend of a saint, or some love-ditty; or, what is still more frequent, some ballad about a bold contrabandista, or hardy bandolero, for the smuggler and the robber are poetical heroes among the common people of Spain.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Sometimes it struggles through rugged barrancos, or ravines, worn by winter torrents, the obscure path of the contrabandista; while, ever and anon, the ominous cross, the monument of robbery and murder, erected on a mound of stones at some lonely part of the road, admonishes the traveller that he is among the haunts of banditti, perhaps at that very moment under the eye of some lurking bandolero.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • The couplets thus chanted, are often old traditional romances about the Moors, or some legend of a saint, or some love-ditty; or, what is still more frequent, some ballad about a bold contrabandista, or hardy bandolero, for the smuggler and the robber are poetical heroes among the common people of Spain.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Sometimes it struggles through rugged barrancos, or ravines, worn by winter torrents, the obscure path of the contrabandista; while, ever and anon, the ominous cross, the monument of robbery and murder, erected on a mound of stones at some lonely part of the road, admonishes the traveller that he is among the haunts of banditti, perhaps at that very moment under the eye of some lurking bandolero.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: What's that, territorio bandolero?

    CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2001 2001

  • For a sawbones he was a most complete little bandolero, I'll say that for him, but what he said gave me the blue fits straight off.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

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