cascabel

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a bell attached to a sleigh, or to the harness of a horse that is pulling a sleigh

From Spanish cascabel (“bell, rattle”).

The great tiger-snake is seen with its head raised half a yard from the surface; the cascabel, too, coiled like a cable; and the coral-snake with his red and ringed body stretched at full length along the ground. — The Rifle Rangers, Mayne Reid

sleigh bell

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