Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Christmas festival originating in Latin America that dramatizes the search of Joseph and Mary for lodging.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A traditional Mexican Christmas
procession
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_El salir de la posada, es la mejor jornada_, -- "_the best part of the journey_, say the Spaniards, _is the getting_ _out of the posada_."
A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 Volume 1 (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755
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It's currently the low season, so the posada is closed, but it is open for bookings from December onwards.
South America: Perfect posadas Vicky Baker 2010
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The girls there would ask me if the English caballero in the posada was a monk in disguise, or if he had taken a vow to the sancissima madre not to speak to a woman, or whether -- You can imagine what fairly free-spoken girls will ask when they come to the point of not caring what they say; and it used to vex me.
Victory Joseph Conrad 1890
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The posada was a wretched one, but there were few people in it.
In New Granada Heroes and Patriots William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The posada was a large building, the windows of which were well fenced with rejas, or iron grating: no light gleamed from them, and the silence of death not only seemed to pervade the house, but the street in which it was situated.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842
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The posada was a large building, the windows of which were well fenced with rejas, or iron grating: no light gleamed from them, and the silence of death not only seemed to pervade the house, but the street in which it was situated.
The Bible in Spain 1712
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A posada is a Christmas festival celebrated in Latin America that dramatizes Joseph and Mary's search for lodging in anticipation of the birth of Jesus.
KFDM.com Breaking News : News By ANA LEY/The Monitor 2009
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A posada is a Christmas festival celebrated in Latin America that dramatizes Joseph and Mary's search for lodging in anticipation of the birth of Jesus.
Brownsville Herald : 2009
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We got there late Saturday night and checked into our "posada" kind of like a bed and breakfast, but cooler.
Colonia, Uruguay! 2007
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Christmas carols (villancicos) are sung by all in the procession, and the songs ask for "posada" or shelter at the inn.
chained_bear commented on the word posada
"...he had passed a posada where carts and wagons stood under the shade of carob-trees while their drivers drank and rested..."
--O'Brian, The Wine-Dark Sea, 139
March 14, 2008