bombillan.
/bɒmˈbiː(j)ə/ A vessel from which maté is drunk in South America.
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1866 Commissioners of Patents Jrnl. 24 July 1094/1 Patent 1895 [for] apparatus used for imbibing or sucking in liquids, known as ‘bombillas’.
1921 Glasgow Herald 11 Feb. 9 A bombilla manufactured specially for the South American market.
1921 Chambers's Jrnl. June 382/1 Maté circulates in a small gourd-shaped vessel, each person taking a pull at the bombilla, a kind of spoon-strainer perforated to let the liquid pass.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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