canfín
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Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]canfín m (uncountable)
- (Costa Rica) kerosene
- 2019 December 21, Jacques Sagot, “Brunhilda de Portilla, la compositora costarricense que se volvió el alma de la Navidad”, in La Nación (Costa Rica)[1]:
- No había alumbrado eléctrico, solo candelas o lamparitas de canfín.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “canfín”, 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