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La Mancha

[ lah mahn-chah ]

noun

  1. a plateau region in central Spain: famous as the birthplace of Don Quixote, the hero of Cervantes' novel Don Quixote de la Mancha.


La Mancha

/ la ˈmantʃa /

noun

  1. a plateau of central Spain, between the mountains of Toledo and the hills of Cuenca: traditionally associated with episodes in Don Quixote. Average height: 600 m (2000 ft)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

All of the drama was captured in the 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha.

Don Quijote de la Mancha himself could scarcely have made a more pure-intentioned yet more unpractical President.

Perchance you may have encountered them in traversing the high parameras of La Mancha?

We have animadverted upon the absence of water in La Mancha.

Garganey also nest in large numbers on the lagoons of Daimiel in La Mancha.

It was not until he had reached his fifty-seventh year that he finished the first part of Don Quixote de la Mancha.

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