Synonyms for olla

Grammar : Noun

Spell : aw-lyah, aw-yah; English ol-uh

Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔ lyɑ, ˈɔ yɑ; English ˈɒl ə

Définition of olla

noun jug

Example sentences :

A kind of chick-pea, much used in Spain, especially in the olla podrida.
Extract from : « Roman Catholicism in Spain » by Anonymous

She started down here at nine o'clock with her doll and her olla.
Extract from : « The Forbidden Trail » by Honor Willsie

Rosita set the olla on one side, and placed the comal over the coals.
Extract from : « The White Chief » by Mayne Reid

And, lifting the olla, she tapped it, and signed the way to him.
Extract from : « Red Men and White » by Owen Wister

“The one that grabbed the olla from you,” Florence breathed.
Extract from : « Crossed Trails in Mexico » by Nell Virginia Fairfax and Helen Allan Ripley

Notwithstanding this assurance, our supper was long in making its appearance, for the operations of an olla cannot be hurried.
Extract from : « Excursions in the mountains of Ronda and Granada, with characteristic sketches of the inhabitants of southern Spain, v. 2/2 » by Charles Rochfort Scott

Of course, every olla, must everywhere be made according to what can be got.
Extract from : « Gatherings From Spain » by Richard Ford

In cookery, a species of olla podrida variously prepared, as the materials and fancy of the maker dictate.
Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley

Several of these strings were tied together and placed in an olla of water.
Extract from : « The Bontoc Igorot » by Albert Ernest Jenks

They had no appetite then, and so they couldn't judge of the olla podrida.
Extract from : « Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color » by Brander Matthews

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