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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Southwestern US) A barfly; one who is routinely drunk and dissolute..
Don Francisco's lupine dissimulation was perfect. A weatherbeaten parandero, an incorrigible roue and a guzzler ...
Nazi infection took hold, of course, more easily among the usual weaklings, hotel-bar politicians and paranderos, or drunkards.
May I be damned in heaven and hell, I'm looking for that drunken parandero, that tramp, my capataz.
The following section will expand on the image of Zapata as a parandero, but with a special focus on his reputation as a seducer.
On the Caribbean coast, the Ganfuna communities are known for their paranda, most of whose practitioners (paranderos) are fairly elderly and live in Belize.
The possibility, however remote, was enough for one parandero to point this out as part of my education into the tradition. In retrospect, during the first night of parang in 1989, I learned far more than chords and rhythms.
Few people know this, but at a time when many young people were turning away from Garifuna traditions, Andy's very first recording was a song on Traditional Music of the Garifuna (Black Carib) of Belize (Folkways, 1 982), with late parandero Gabaga Williams on guitar, backed by a female chorus and Garifuna drummers.
The paranderos, the singers, had arrived.
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Parandero means (Southwestern US) A barfly; one who is routinely drunk and dissolute..
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Don Francisco's lupine dissimulation was perfect. A weatherbeaten parandero, an incorrigible roue and a guzzler ...
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