Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given in parts of South America, especially near the mouth of the La Plata river, and in the region of the pampas generally, to a soft concretionary limestone, having about the consistence of slightly baked clay, and of a dark-brown color. It underlies the so-called Pampean formation.
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Examples
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Often, where the ground is soft, there are twenty or thirty or more burrows in an old vizcachera; but on stony, or "tosca" soil even an old one may have no more than four or five burrows.
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Where there are large cakes of "tosca" near the surface, as in many localities on the southern pampas, the vizcacha makes its burrow as best he can, and without the regular trenches.
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Lets see, I shall have a warm blue tosca with a cherry concerto.
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Thanks , Mussitate , for your kind introduction - I hope that your warm blue tosca wasn't too cold !
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Not being acquainted with the channel, we had the misfortune to stick for two days on a tosca reef, which extended a distance of sixty-five feet.
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray
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The soil is technically called _mina de tosca_, a whitish, pumice-like stone, often forming a gravel conglomerate under a rocky stratum: hardening by exposure, it is good for building.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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It was well parapeted near the sea, and it had heavy cuttings in the white _tosca_, a rock somewhat resembling the
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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News Dissector Blog Danny 2010
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CONTACT RICARDO at tosca. 2010 [at] yahoo. com or 831-688-8038 ASAP.
News Dissector Blog Danny 2010
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