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Spanish
Etymology
From pitillo + -era.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /pitiˈʝeɾa/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /pitiˈʎeɾa/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /pitiˈʃeɾa/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /pitiˈʒeɾa/
- Rhymes: -eɾa
- Syllabification: pi‧ti‧lle‧ra
Noun
pitillera f (plural pitilleras)
- cigarette case
2015 October 23, “La vida de Lampedusa entre sus 4.000 libros”, in El País:También en esa primera sala hay objetos personales, como una pitillera de plata, de su aristocrático bisabuelo, Giulio Fabrizio Tomasi, en quien se inspiró para contar la vida del príncipe de Salina, interpretado en la versión cinematográfica de Luchino Visconti por Burt Lancaster.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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