areíto
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areíto (plural areítos)
- A type of performance and ceremony of the Taíno people of the Caribbean.
- 2005, Peter E. Siegel, Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico:
- What did an areíto actually entail? The sixteenth-century chroniclers tell us that areítos recited histories, which were transmitted through the generations.
- 2005, Nicholas J. Saunders, The Peoples of the Caribbean: An Encyclopedia of Archaeology and Traditional Culture:
- In early encounters, the Spanish were welcomed and entertained by the Taíno, who arranged areítos in their honor as a type of elite hospitality.
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areíto m (plural areítos)
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- “areíto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014