postrimería

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /postɾimeˈɾia/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Syllabification: pos‧tri‧me‧rí‧a

Noun

postrimería f (plural postrimerías)

  1. closing stage; sunset
    • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 63:
      Alguno hubo—el P. Menéndez, franciscano—que en las postrimerías del siglo XVII realizó nada menos de cuatro viajes en busca de los famosos Césares.
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