单词 | quinceañera |
释义 | quinceañeran. In Latin America and among Latinos: a celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday and her transition from childhood to adulthood, typically involving a mass followed by a reception with refreshments and dancing. Also: a girl celebrating her fifteenth birthday in this way. ΚΠ 1972 Van Nuys (Calif.) News 11 June (Central ed.) 31 a Her parents..honored la quinceanera..at an all-day fiesta beginning with a mid-morning mass.] 1972 Blade (Toledo, Ohio) Sunday Mag. 30 July 13/2 Father Caballero..encourages the observance of the quincienera as a means of carrying on a beautiful Mexican tradition in the United States. 1988 Texas Monthly Jan. 96/2 The quinceañera and her escort made the fifteenth pair—one couple for every year. 1997 Y. M. Murray Locas 68 I pretended I was a real princesa..dressed up in white silk like I'm at my quinceañera. 2000 Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Calif.) (Nexis) 5 Oct. 1 b The center will provide a place where families can have weddings and Quinceaneros. 2005 Miami Herald (Nexis) 16 Nov. a32 Parents use a young, impressionable person's celebration—be it a bat mitzvah, Sweet 16 or quinceañera—to showcase their financial success. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1972 |
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