entrada

English

From Spanish entrada (“entry”).

entrada (plural entradas)

(historical) An armed incursion of Spanish conquistadors into American territories.
- 2005, Robert C Galgano, Feast of Souls, p. 38:
  Each entrada or exploratory venture into regions beyond Aztec and Inca influence went under the assumed sanction of the Christian deity and with the stated purpose of bringing salvation to the ‘heathen’.
- 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin 2008, p. 58:
  It was gold seized from Amerindians, or extracted with slave labour, which helped to fund the entradas organized locally after 1508, rather than gold from Spain.