Salvadoreño

plural Salvadoreños

1. Synonym of Salvadoran.

   The Hondureños inhumanly put to death all the wounded Salvadoreños left at Comayagua and Santa Rosa. Ferrera, now flushed with victory, thought that he could dictate terms to Salvador.

   1887, Hubert Howe Bancroft, “Dissolution of the Union. 1839–1852.”, in History of Central America (The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft; VIII), volume III (1801–1887), San Francisco, Calif.: The History Company, […], →OCLC, pages 204–205

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   There is a handful of Germans, French, Italians and Arabs, as well as Salvadoreños, who have built up export, import or retail businesses or small industries, and though most of them may not be very rich they constitute a core of prosperity which gives El Salvador the title of Ruhr and makes it respected and slightly feared by the other republics, […]

   1962, Nicholas Wollaston, “El Salvador”, in Red Rumba: A Journey through the Caribbean and Central America, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →OCLC, pages 107–108

   Modern Salvadoreños would not like to be paid in cocoa beans either. They are probably more practical about money and what it can buy than the people of any other country in Central America.

   1965, Ruth Karen, “El Salvador: The Land of Precious Things”, in The Land and People of Central America (Portraits of the Nations Series), Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →LCCN, page 70

   Like Santa Bárbara and Los Angeles, San Salvador also experienced racial political conflict. During the first elections in the early 1850s, the inexperienced Salvadoreños were persuaded by Anglos to vote for anti-Mexican candidates who were deceptively presented to them as pro-Mexican.

   1979, Albert Camarillo, “Historical Patterns in the Development of Chicano Urban Society: Southern California, 1848–1930”, in Ray Allen Billington, Albert Camarillo, The American Southwest: Image and Reality: Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, 16 April 1977, Los Angeles, Calif.: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, →OCLC, part I (The Nineteenth Century), section “Patterns of Political Powerlessness”, page 45

   Among the worst mass deaths of immigrants in the history of the U.S.–México borderlands, thirteen Salvadoreños died in Alamo Wash in neighboring Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on July 5–6, 1980; […]

   2009, John Annerino, “Seeing Ghosts”, in Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America’s Desert Borderlands in the New Era, Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 113

   Synonyms: Salvadoran