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escribano

escribano

English

Noun

escribano (plural escribanos)

  1. A clerk; a scrivener.
    • 1843, George Borrow, The Bible in Spain
      They robbed a gentleman and ill-treated him, but his brother, who was an escribano, was soon upon their trail, and had them arrested; but he wanted some one to identify them, and it chanced that they had stopped to drink water at my stall []

Spanish

Noun

escribano m (plural escribanos, feminine escribana)

  1. scrivener
  2. court clerk, notary
  3. bunting (bird)