Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word descansos.

Examples

  • Still, parts of the US are quite receptive: Often called descansos, a Spanish word for 'resting places,' roadside memorials are most common in the American Southwest.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

  • Still, parts of the US are quite receptive: Often called descansos, a Spanish word for 'resting places,' roadside memorials are most common in the American Southwest.

    Roadside(memorial)america.com 2006

  • In the Southwest, and increasingly elsewhere, they are known as "descansos," Spanish for "places of rest."

    The State Journal-Register Home RSS 2008

  • Granted, there is still ample time for recreos, lunch and descansos.

    Site Visit « Wanderings 2008

  • I recited the _descansos_ as I walked, telling the rosary of my life, but it didn't seem real any more, as if all the pain and the love and the loss had happened to someone else, or had never happened at all.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • My grandmother told me that in the borderlands I must tell the _descansos_, the litany of life and loss, as often as I can.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • Ha llovido por cuatro días consecutivos con breves descansos, el cielo parecía no contenerse y caía agua de forma estrepitosa.

    Global Voices Online Juan Arellano 2010

  • Ha llovido por cuatro días consecutivos con breves descansos, el cielo parecía no contenerse y caía agua de forma estrepitosa.

    Global Voices Online 2010

  • Members suggest using one of two power tools to cut through the most durable of roadside memorials, known locally as descansos.

    KOB.com - Home 2010

  • Ha llovido por cuatro días consecutivos con breves descansos, el cielo parecía no contenerse y caía agua de forma estrepitosa.

    Elites TV Global Voices Online 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.