Nueba Yol
n.— «The skinny scrap of a boy who had gone to “Nueba Yol” four years earlier was so much bigger now.» —“Finally, Back to the Island for a Summer at Home” by Sara Rimer in Villa Vasquez, Dominican Republic New York Times Aug. 22, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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