| 释义 |
‖ pulperia|pulpeˈria|
[Sp. Amer.]
In Central and South America and the south-west U.S., a grocery or tavern.
1818A. Gillespie Gleanings & Remarks Buenos Ayres viii. 91 At the intersected corners of almost every street in that capital, pulperias, or dram, and grocery shops, are established, that vend liquors, candles, and other articles. 1840R. H. Dana Two Yrs. before Mast (1841) xxviii. 192 He..came to the Pueblo de los Angelos... Here he went dead to leeward among the pulperías, gambling-rooms, &c. 1859T. Cochrane Narr. Services in Liberation of Chili, Peru, & Brazil I. x. 216 The two months' pay offered the other day could not now effect its purpose, as the whole—and more is due to the Pulperia keepers, to whose benefit, and not that of the seamen, it must have immediately accrued. 1871H. M. & P. V. N. Myers Life under Tropics iii. 21 We were forced by a sudden shower to seek shelter in a way-side pulperia. 1904Conrad Nostromo i. viii. 80 The horseman hammered with the butt of a heavy revolver at the doors of low pulperias. 1905J. Masefield Mainsail Haul 14 When Don Alfonso was in the pulperia (that's Spanish for grog-shop), he was a bluin' down that licker. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Feb. 173/1 ‘Charlie the Gaucho’ opens outside a pulperia on the Pampas. 1974D. Meiring President Plan ix. 74 The single pulpería which he had visited to buy food. |