Matanza

Quick meaning: Matanza is a noun meaning A place where animals are slaughtered, for their hides, meat, tallow, etc, particularly in a Latin American context; a slaughterhouse.

Meaning

A place where animals are slaughtered, for their hides, meat, tallow, etc, particularly in a Latin American context; a slaughterhouse.

More Meanings

1. A slaughter, as of cattle or pigs (for their hides, meat, etc), of tuna, or of people; the act of butchering or slaughtering.

Example Sentences

[…] but this wasn't a matanza with family and vecinos helping, this was Sonny lying in the dark forest […]

A matanza was another busy time for the Spaniards. This was the butchering or killing of the cattle for their hides.

There is a great variety of products of the matanza. Here I describe three of the most widely appreciated ones: the dried ham, whose fat is choice tocino, the sausage called chorizo and the preserved loin and ribs of pork.

[…] the Genoese established a colony at Tabarka on the coast of Tunisia between 1540 and 1742 specializing in coral-fishing, and where Tunisian fishermen have now joined Sicilian fleets in the matanza, the great seasonal slaughter of tuna.

Word Forms

• matanzas

Related Words

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