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pájara
Obscure Spanish cycling term to denote a collapse after having burnt up one’s reserves of carbon hydrates, which leapt into the national consciousness and everyday use, when Miguel Indurain suffered one during the 1996 Tour de France. Spaniards in all kinds of situations suddenly began to suffer them, for example, after running for the bus, casí me da una pájara.
palomar
A palomar is a kind of ornate dovecote, and is an essential architectural and landscape element of the wheatlands of Castilla-Leon.
Palomares (dovecotes) in Castilla y Leon(Iberianature)
pasodoble
payès
political parties in Spain(current)
Perejil, Isla de - Perejil Island
Peste Negra
pijos
Pijos are young people, usually from upper-middle or upper-class backgrounds, with conservative values, and who revel in ostentatious consumption of certain expensive brands (Blueberry’s, Lacoste, etc). Perhaps the American term preppycomes closest. Pijo/a is also used as an adjective as in ropa pija - posh clothes.
piracy (piratería)
pistolerismo
Plan de Establización
plateresco(plateresque)
plazas de soberanía (places of sovereignty)
polaco
political quotes (by Spanish leaders and politicians)
Popular Front(Wikipedia)
population
Portugal (and its relationship with Spain)
posada
An inn or hotel. Writing in 1954, V. S. Pritchett wrote while travelling around Spain:
“The inn, if there is one, will not be a hotel, nor even a fonda — the Arab word — but perhaps a posada: a place one can ride into with a mule or a donkey, where one can stable an animal and lie down oneself on a sack of straw, the other side of the stall." Pritchett, V.S., The Spanish Temper (1954).Clearly unimaginable today.
Postguerra, La - The Post-war
pronunciamento
prostitution
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