escribano

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Definition of escribano

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

A clerk; a scrivener.

“They robbed a gentleman and ill-treated him, but his brother, who was an escribano, was soon upon their trail, and had them arrested; but he wanted some one to identify them, and it chanced that they had stopped to drink water at my stall […]”

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noun

A clerk; a scrivener.

“They robbed a gentleman and ill-treated him, but his brother, who was an escribano, was soon upon their trail, and had them arrested; but he wanted some one to identify them, and it chanced that they had stopped to drink water at my stall […]”

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Borrowed from Spanish escribano. Doublet of scrivener and scrivano.

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