Pelota, Pentimenti (1787)

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TRAVELS THROUGH SPAIN IN THE YEARS 1775 AND 1776
by Henry Swinburne
London: P. Elmsly
1787

   There is a one-volume work in 1779, and this two-volume work in 1787.  OED has about 30 hits for the 1779 work.  What I read here (1787) is probably there (1779) also.

VOLUME ONE
Pg. 354:  ...where the fandango was danced _a la ley_, that is, in all the perfection it is capable of.  Among the gipsies there is another dance, called the _Manguindoy_, so lascivious and indecent, that it is prohibited under severe penalties...
(OED for "manguindoy"?--ed.)

VOLUME TWO
Pg. 32:  Then indeed was the time, when the Spaniard cried out in the fullness of his heart, _Quien no ha visto Sevilla, no ha visto maravilla_.*
*He that has not seen Seville has not seen the wonder of the world.

Pg. 43:  ..._cigarros_*...
*These are little rolls of tobacco, which the Spaniards smoke without a pipe.
(OED has 1832 for "cigarillo"--ed.)

Pg. 195:  ...every village has its _Pelota_ or ground for playing at fives.
(OED has 1844 for "pelota"--ed.)

Pg. 408:  ...painters call _pentimenti_...
(OED has this in 1903, under "pentimento."  I didn't realize it was an antedate of over a century, or I would have cited more--ed.)



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