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Chorón (m)

(with) definite article: el
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Chorus

From Latin "corium" [skin/leather/hide] ?; From the caption of miniature 260 in the 13th century manuscript »Cantigas de Santa María«; Interpreted as the Spanish synonym of Chorus.

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Anonymous: Caption to a print of miniature 260 in the collection of Dr. Fritz Schneider, Krefeld.

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Fritz Schneider (Krefeld, Aug. 2000).