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‖ palabra|pəˈlɑːbrə|
[Sp., = word: cf. palaver.]
A word; speech, talk, palaver.
Chiefly in pl. pocas palabras (Spanish) few words: a phrase frequent c 1600, and variously corrupted.
1594Kyd Sp. Trag. iii. xiv. 118 What new deuice haue they deuised, tro? Pocas Palabras, milde as the Lambe. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. Induct. i. 5 Therefore Paucas pallabris, let the world slide: Sessa. 1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girl D.'s Wks. 1873 III. 221 Pacus palabros, I will coniure for you, farewell. 1821Scott Kenilw. xi, An ye mend not your manners, and mind your business, leaving off such idle palabras. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. v. vi, To conquer or die is no theatrical palabra, in these circumstances, but a practical truth and necessity. |