helado

plural helados

1. countableuncountableSpanish or Latin American ice cream.

   A medium cup of helado at Pampas Helado Argentina in Aliso Viejo includes two flavors, which can be the chocolate alfajor and banana split.

   2024 August 10, Edwin Goei, “You’re gonna need a bigger cone: 3 new ice cream shops in O.C. worth screaming for”, in Daily Pilot, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2024

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   Soul food, African crafts, and helado sellers line the service streets on either side of the parkway, and traffic halts on all side streets to let the masses promenade.

   1999 October 19, Alexandra Lange, “50 Ways to Love . . . Park Slope (31-40)”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2007

   "At my school the Chinese kids go for bubble tea after school, the Puerto Ricans get batidos and the other Latin girls like the helados from the street cart," said Shirley Wong, an eighth grader at a parochial school in Chinatown.

   2006 June 21, Julia Moskin, Kim Severson, “The World’s Cups”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021