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Fray Luis

Brother Luis

borgiano (borgiana)

of/relating to Jorge Luis Borges

¿acepta a Luis como o por legítimo esposo? form

do you take Luis to be your lawful wedded husband? form

Siglo de Oro

Spain's literary renaissance, known as the Golden Age, roughly covers the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It includes the Italian-influenced poetry of figures such as Garcilaso de la Vega; the religious verse of Fray Luis de León, Santa Teresa de Ávila and San Juan de la Cruz; picaresque novels such as the anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes and Quevedo's Buscón; Miguel de Cervantes' immortal Don Quijote; the theater of Lope de Vega, and the ornate poetry of Luis de Góngora.

Realismo Mágico

A term applied to the work of certain twentieth-century Latin American novelists, in particular the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende of Chile, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges and Alejo Carpentier of Cuba. The common characteristic, found for example in García Márquez's Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude), is the realistic treatment of unrealistic or fantasy situations.

y aquí está Luis que no me deja mentir

and Luis here will bear me out

muebles estilo Luis XVI

Luis XVI furniture

Generación del 27

The name applied to the loose grouping of writers who became prominent in Spain in the late 1920s, 1927 being the third centennial of the death of the Golden Age poet Luis de Góngora. The best known among them are Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti, Gerardo Diego, Pedro Salinas, Dámaso Alonso, Jorge Guillén, Manuel Altolaguirre. Among the influences some or all of them shared were traditional poetic and musical forms, folk verse, flamenco, the cinema, surrealism. Many of them were politically active.

PSOE - Partido Socialista Obrero Español

One of Spain's two main national political parties, the other being the PP - Partido Popular. The PSOE was transformed from a democratic Marxist party to a liberal democratic party in 1978. It came to power in 1982 and remained in government until 1996. Under the leadership of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero it returned to power in 2005 and increased its share of the vote in the 2008 general elections.

Luis es (mucha) pieza para el ajedrez

Luis is really good at chess

Luis es (mucha) pieza para el ajedrez

Luis is a pretty nifty chess player inf

Luis's in the PONS Dictionary

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el tonto de Luis lo ha roto

that idiot Luis broke it