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colonia

[ kuh-loh-nee-uh, -lohn-yuh; Spanish kaw-law-nyah ]

noun

plural colonias
  1. (in the southwestern U.S.) a city neighborhood or a rural settlement inhabited predominantly by Mexicans or Mexican Americans.


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Origin of colonia1

< Mexican Spanish: newly built or settled district of a city; Spanish: plantation, colony
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The brand’s store, in Colonia Juárez, carries this same energy, with its aesthetic drawing from the cargo trailers that go from Mexico City to the States.

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He chose Colonia Juárez for the location, specifically an area that’s home to many auto body shops, because it felt true to where these looks would actually be worn.

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“The car is parked, nose down, atop a steep hill in Colonia Libertad, where it appears to have miraculously jumped the nearby border fence.”

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She lives in Colonia Montelimar, a neighbourhood that until recently was controlled by the fearsome MS-13.

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“La Colonia Independencia is the mother of all the neighborhoods in Monterrey,” Vázquez said.

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