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la lengua

/ˈlenɡwa/ noun · feminine A2
  1. tongue (organ)
  2. language (a body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication)
  3. Spanish (subject taught in schools)

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Y como no era cosa de que ellos, que eran muchos, aprendieran la lengua de uno, sino al revés, acabé por acomodarme a su estrafalaria jerigonza, atiborrando mi memoria de vocablos bárbaros y de solecismos atroces.
Recuerdos de mi vida: Mi infancia y juventud, p. 32 · C1
Dos rojas lenguas de fuego
Rimas, p. 7 · C1
Ver las rojizas lenguas agitarse!
Rimas, p. 15 · C1
En 1907 obtuve cátedra de Lengua francesa, que profesé durante cinco años en Soria.
Páginas escogidas, p. 3 · C1

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