South America
Preserved but no longer current.
They coyer an area of 750,000 sq. miles. It is the Spanish form of Peruvian bamba, meaning flats or plains. Pampero, The (pam pe 'ro). A dry, north-west wind that blows in the summer season from the Andes across the pampas to the sea-coast.
Era: ca. 1898 (Victorian)
Examples
Tatoeba sentence #2721827 (CC BY 2.0 FR, tatoeba.org, retrieved 2026-07-31)
Sources & notes
Reproduced from Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898 edition, public domain; archive.org, retrieved 2026-07-31; OCR text, minor errors possible). Reflects the scholarship and attitudes of its era.
Common questions
What does “South America” mean?
They coyer an area of 750,000 sq. miles. It is the Spanish form of Peruvian bamba, meaning flats or plains. Pampero, The (pam pe 'ro). A dry, north-west wind that blows in the summer season from the Andes across the pampas to the sea-coast.
Is “South America” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.