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Their well-practiced routines, displayed with a lively musical backdrop, feature ten different exercises that will include dozens of fast turns and heart-stopping crosses, as well the favorite crowd-pleaser called el abanico (the fan).
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Their well-practiced routines, displayed with a lively musical backdrop, feature ten different exercises that will include dozens of fast turns and heart-stopping crosses, as well the favorite crowd-pleaser called el abanico (the fan).
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Instale y use un abanico con escape o ventilador hacia afuera encima de las estufas de gas.
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[Reporter] The investment spread [abanico inversionista].
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On her head was a good-sized earthen jar, which she poised on the summit of her cranium without support from either hand, one of which she employed in coquetting with a banana leaf instead of the national _abanico_, or fan, of the Spanish ladies.
Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859
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I see the _abanico_, with its enormous fan-shaped leaves; the wax-palm distilling its resinous gum; and the _acrocomia_, with its thorny trunk and enormous racemes of golden fruits.
The Rifle Rangers Mayne Reid 1850
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Instead of air-conditioning, it had this large sweaty lady named Aling Doring who, with a native abanico in her hand, fanned me and swatted the army of flies around me.
BoSanchez.ph 2009
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Amongst the cultivated species figures lobster (US$35. 116.000), abanico shells
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