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单词 manada
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manadan.

Brit. /maˈnɑːdə/, U.S. /məˈnɑdə/
Inflections: Plural manadas.
Forms: 1800s– manada, 1800s– manáda.
Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish manada.
Etymology: < Spanish manada herd, drove, flock (of cattle or other livestock) (1335), earlier in sense ‘handful’ (c1300) < mano hand (see mano n.2) + -ada -ade suffix. Compare Occitan manada (1859), French manade herd of horses or of bulls bred for fighting (1794; probably < Occitan, although attested earlier).Compare isolated borrowing of French manade:1932 R. Campbell Taurine Provence ii. 43 These are bulls..who do honour to their manade.
U.S. regional (chiefly south-western).
A herd of horses, usually breeding mares.
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1863 J. S. Hittell Resources Calif. 223 More than half of the brood-mares of the state are wild Spanish... They are in bands called manadas.
1873 C. Nordhoff Calif. 244 I do not want that mañada of horse on the hill yonder.
1885 Overland Monthly July 91 We ran down the rocky slope to the pasture-field, drove the manada of horses and colts to the corral, selected our mounts [etc.].
1892 Dial. Notes 1 191 Manáda, a flock, a herd. In Spain it usually means a flock of sheep. In Texas it is applied specifically to a small drove of horses, about a score.
1892 Dial. Notes 1 249 Manada,..the word is more specifically applied to mares.
1993 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (U.K. ed.) ii. 126 In the days to follow the hacendado would come up to the corral where they'd shaped the manada and he and John Grady would walk among the mares.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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