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cantina

[ kan-tee-nuh; Spanish kahn-tee-nah ]

noun

Southwestern U.S.
plural cantinas
  1. a saloon; bar.


cantina

/ æˈپːə /

noun

  1. a bar or wine shop, esp in a Spanish-speaking country
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Origin of cantina1

1835–45, Americanism; < Spanish < Italian; canteen
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of cantina1

from Spanish
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“I can sit here and tell you my entire fire story,” he said over lunch at a cantina in downtown Santa Rosa, “and you’ll empathize with it.”

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Other announced tenants are Bark Social, an off-leash membership dog park and social club, experiential art gallery Hopscotch, Mike Hess Brewing, restaurants Poppy + Rose, King and Queen Cantina, and Mario’s Neighborhood Butcher Shop & Delicatessen.

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It was truly a spectacle that combined the aspects of a rock concert, “Christian” evangelical megachurch service, crime family gathering, bazaar, Mos Eisley cantina from "Star Wars" and a professional wrestling supercard.

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The opening scene in “The Acolyte” takes place in an eatery crowded with colorful aliens, a callback to the Mos Eisley cantina from the first “Star Wars” movie, in 1977.

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Meanwhile, the Rancho Bravo branches on Capitol Hill and Wallingford are now rebranded as Teto’s Cantina.

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