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  • noun Plural form of quinceanera.

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Examples

  • That would boost the downtown shopping district, which is dotted with 99-cent stores, dusty windowfronts filled with gowns for first communions and "quinceaneras," or Latin sweet-16 parties, and signs advertising Western Union money transfers to Mexico.

    Redneck's Revenge 2008

  • That would boost the downtown shopping district, which is dotted with 99-cent stores, dusty windowfronts filled with gowns for first communions and "quinceaneras," or Latin sweet-16 parties, and signs advertising Western Union money transfers to Mexico.

    CNSNews.com Headlines 2008

  • That would boost the downtown shopping district, which is dotted with 99-cent stores, dusty windowfronts filled with gowns for first communions and "quinceaneras," or Latin sweet-16 parties, and signs advertising Western Union money transfers to Mexico.

    Redneck's Revenge 2008

  • BENTONVILLE — An English as a Second Language teacher who gets so involved with students she attends their quinceaneras and other special events.

    Literacy News – 88th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

  • Albarran says that in some parts of Mexico residents have a war raging around them, complete with grenades and cartel members setting up their own road blocks in the streets, yet the local media are reporting on weddings, quinceaneras and fender benders.

    Mexico's Drug Cartels Use Force To Silence Media 2010

  • A wedding party taking pictures at the Angel of Independence (we later learned that given the pink dress, this was more likely a quinceaneras party) --

    Two Reports from Mexico City: Report 2 2008

  • A wedding party taking pictures at the Angel of Independence we later learned that given the pink dress, this was more likely a quinceaneras party-

    Two Reports from Mexico City: Report 2 2008

  • Their girls are celebrating quinceaneras, the equivalent of "sweet 16" parties.

    Brown Against Brown 2008

  • This is a place where you can find a quinceaneras (ph) shop, a mango stand.

    CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2007 2007

  • The troupes are so popular, they're hired to dance at weddings, for quinceaneras, celebrations of the Virgin of Guadalupe, bachelorette parties and even rosary ceremonies for the dead.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

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