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Galician
Verb
escollera
- first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of escoller
Spanish
Etymology
From escollo (“reef”) + -era.
Noun
escollera f (plural escolleras)
- breakwater
2015 July 24, “El sutil Petrosián (XIX)”, in El País:Mañana (22.30) el magnífico equipo de Rafael Andarias representa en la escollera de Xàbia (Alicante) su tradicional joya veraniega, el Ajedrez Viviente; este año, con el tema Indios y Vaqueros, y la partida Kaspárov-Guélfand, Linares 1991.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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