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Alamo

UK/ˈæləˌməʊ/ US/ˈæləˌmoʊ/ uncommon

noun

1.

the mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico

Origin

Borrowed from Spanish álamo (“cottonwood tree”).

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