jacales

Variant of jacal

jacal definition

☆ ja·cal (hä käl′)

noun pl. jacales -·cal′es (-kä′lās) or jacals -·cals′

a hut in Mexico and the Southwest, with walls of close-set wooden stakes plastered with mud and roofed with straw, rushes, etc.

Etymology: AmSp < Nahuatl xacalli, contr. < xamitl calli, adobe house

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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