albanega

Spanish

Noun

albanega f (plural albanegas)

1. a kind of cloth head covering, worn by women around the 16th and 17th centuries
2. a type of animal trap placed at the entrance of a burrow

Further reading

• “albanega”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10