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/ˌkɔɹˈtɛz/
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NOUN
- Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)
How To Use Cortes In A Sentence
- In 1518, Hernando Cortes asked the Spanish governor of Cuba to sponsor an expedition to Mexico.
- In 1518, Hernando Cortes asked the Spanish governor of Cuba to sponsor an expedition to Mexico.
- Cortes speaks to both of us at once - to him in rapid Spanish, to me in tentative English punctuated by long gaps in which he turns his limpid brown eyes my way, imploring me to help him find the missing words.
- From the smoldering remains of the destruction, Cortés built two of what were to metamorphose in the future as Cuernavaca's main tourist attractions: the Palacio de Cortés (now a history museum) and the Catedral de la Asunción. In Morelos, Cuernavaca springs eternal
- A tutte le pie cortesi persone che con assistenza, con scritti, con l'intervento ai funebri della cara sventurata estinta, con adornarne di fiori l'ultima manifestazione terrena desiderarono renderne meno acre it dolore, ringraziamenti vivissimi porge la famiglia PAMPALONE. Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions
- While much of the California coast saw breakers in the six to eight-foot range, the faces of the bigger waves at Cortes were well over 35 feet from trough to crest.
- Nevertheless, the intellectual climate of the Cortes of Cadiz was anti-aristocratic.
- Cortés built a leprosarium, the Hospital de San Lázaro, named for the patron saint of lepers, in Tlaxpana, outside Mexico City. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
- Le cortesie, l'audaci imprese io canto "-- the northern Ariosto sang bravely the _arme_ and the _audaci imprese_; less confidently the _amori_ and the _cortesie_. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
- In 1518, Hernando Cortes asked the Spanish governor of Cuba to sponsor an expedition to Mexico.