Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who practices folk medicine; an herb doctor.
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- noun A specifically female
curandero , or traditional Central American healer
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Mexican woman who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I've learned a lot from this community at a time in my life when I needed them, in particular from a well-respected world-renowned 72-year-old curandera and master healer who now almost feels like an adoptive mom to me.
Christine Buckley: Hot Springs, Arkansas: The Best Kept Secret In America Christine Buckley 2011
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Can you tell me a little bit about your relationship with the curandera you met in Mexico?
Dr. Irene S. Levine: Life is a Trip: Finding Friends in Strange Places Dr. Irene S. Levine 2010
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I guess someone paid a curandera to come smudge the locker room with sage or something, because damn, did the team's luck turn.
Elizabeth Engel: LOLskins, Indeed Elizabeth Engel 2011
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I've learned a lot from this community at a time in my life when I needed them, in particular from a well-respected world-renowned 72-year-old curandera and master healer who now almost feels like an adoptive mom to me.
Christine Buckley: Hot Springs, Arkansas: The Best Kept Secret In America Christine Buckley 2011
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Can you tell me a little bit about your relationship with the curandera you met in Mexico?
Dr. Irene S. Levine: Life is a Trip: Finding Friends in Strange Places Dr. Irene S. Levine 2010
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Can you tell me a little bit about your relationship with the curandera you met in Mexico?
Dr. Irene S. Levine: Life is a Trip: Finding Friends in Strange Places Dr. Irene S. Levine 2010
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Though I recently featured Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton in a Poetry Dispatch, occasionally a critic out there (including my old Yaqui Village friend, Judith Wiker — poet, singer, songwriter, curandera/Eastern healing arts) reminds me: Where are all the women?
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Can you tell me a little bit about your relationship with the curandera you met in Mexico?
Dr. Irene S. Levine: Life is a Trip: Finding Friends in Strange Places Dr. Irene S. Levine 2010
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Can you tell me a little bit about your relationship with the curandera you met in Mexico?
Dr. Irene S. Levine: Life is a Trip: Finding Friends in Strange Places Dr. Irene S. Levine 2010
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A previously mentioned curandera, a mestiza called la Gachupina, working in Tepeji del Río in the late eighteenth century used prayers and orations to solicit the help of Jesus, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and San Antonio de Padua among others when applying herbal remedies.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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