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noun

Olla n.

A pot or jar having a wide mouth; a cinerary urn, especially one of baked clay.

A dish of stewed meat; an olio; an olla-podrida.

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Etymology of 'Olla'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Olla" Quotes from Famous Books

... resembling a brigand out of employ, has traversed the deck with uneasy footsteps and a cigar appearing from out his moustaches, like a light in a tangled forest, or a jack-o'-lantern in a marshy thicket. A fat Spaniard has been discoursing upon the glories of olla podrida. Au reste, we are slowly pursuing our way, and at this rate might ...

— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon De La Barca

... door opened, and two soldiers entered, carrying a red earthenware olla. "Fifteen men," said one of them in ...

— Kid Wolf of Texas - A Western Story • Ward M. Stevens

... a walled square, unmistakably of human construction. He became interested, and, tying his horse to a scrub-cedar, began to dig among the loose stones covering the interior of the square. He discovered a fragment of painted pottery—the segment of an olla, smooth, dark red, and decorated with a design in black. He rubbed the earth from the fragment and polished it on his overalls. He unearthed a larger fragment and found that it matched the other ...

— Sundown Slim • Henry Hubert Knibbs

Words linked to "Olla" : ola, Corypha umbraculifera, talipot