conquistador

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)

Borrowed from Spanish conquistador.

THE MEAN END OF THE GREAT CONQUISTADOR ...... — South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure, Cyrus Townsend Brady
Faces of Paris men go by, their wellpleased pleasers, curled conquistadores. — Ulysses, James Joyce
She is pure Spanish, the real blood of the masterful Conquistadors, and her people have been leaders in Pernambuco for generations. — The case-book of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

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