tertulia

See also: tertúlia

English

Etymology

From Spanish tertulia.

Pronunciation

Noun

tertulia (plural tertulias)

  1. An evening party, a soirée, especially in Spain.
    • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
      At this the man at the left who’d so far not spoke at all rose laughing and gestured for the two boys to follow and they went with him out of the square and into the street leaving the disputants to their rustic parkbench tertulia.

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Spanish

FWOTD – 5 September 2015

Etymology

Unknown origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /terˈtulja/, [t̪erˈt̪ulja]

Noun

tertulia f (plural tertulias)

  1. a regular social gathering, a circle
    • 1998, Federico Utrera, Carmen de Burgos, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Memorias de Colombine, la primera periodista, Hijos de Muley-Rubio →ISBN, page 280
      Un día me encuentro a Rafa Cansinos y me hace una confidencia: - Ramón ha fundado una tertulia literaria en la antigua botillería de Pombo, que se conserva como en los tiempos de su inauguración, allá bajo el reinado de Isabel II.

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