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el tianguis in English

open-air street market noun Latin America

Number 1,924 of the 5,000 most used words in Latin American Spanish.

Example

Los domingos compramos fruta en el tianguis.

On Sundays we buy fruit at the street market.

In Spain

At this place in the list: pijo (posh, snobby; a posh person).

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