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- Spanish · borrowed fromquinceañera
- English todayquinceañera
Borrowed from Spanish quinceañera (literally “fifteen-year-old”), feminine of quinceañero, from quince años (“fifteen years”) + -ero.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
quinceañera
Today it means: The fifteenth birthday and particularly the celebration and ceremony surrounding it for a young Latina woman. Full definition →
Spanish quinceañera