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‖ querencia|keˈrenθja|
[a. Sp. querencia lair, haunt, home ground, f. querer to seek, desire, f. L. quærere to seek.]
1. Bullfighting. The part of the arena where the bull takes his stand; stamping ground.
1932E. Hemingway Death in Afternoon xiii. 150 A querencia is a place the bull naturally wants to go to in the ring; a preferred locality. That is a natural querencia and such are well known and fixed, but an accidental querencia is more than that. It is a place which develops in the course of the fight where the bull makes his home. 1957R. Campbell Portugal vi. 115 He [sc. the bull] may choose his querencia for some strategical advantage—near the body of a dead horse, for instance. 1964Listener 27 Aug. 317/1 It is when the bull leaves his querencia—the place where he feels safe—that he falls a victim to delusion. 1974F. Nolan Oshawa Project i. 3 Some taunted fighting bull seeking its querencia.
2. fig. A (person's) favourite place; home ground, refuge.
1952R. Campbell Lorca i. 8 Andalusia is Lorca's querencia. 1977A. Scholefield Venom iii. 98 Returning always to the centre of the gold carpet for there, like a bull in a ring, he had instinctively made his querencia, his territory. |