Definition of cantina
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Southwest
: a pouch or bag at the pommel of a saddle
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Examples of cantina in a Sentence
we spent an interesting evening in that desert town's lone cantina
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The 14-acre land will feature two major attractions — a ride on the Millennium Falcon and a place in a battle between the First Order and the Resistance — plus a cantina and marketplace.
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Han meets the already-legendary Lando during a high-stakes card game in a low-down cantina, much like the one from the original Star Wars.
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The restaurant’s street front, roughly the width of a school bus, is crowded by culinary neighbors: an Irish pub, a German wurst haus, a large Mexican cantina.
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Urban Kayaks expects to open a cantina in summer 2019, where one might have tacos and a beer after a paddle.
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Solo takes place several years before Han had his fateful meeting with Luke Skywalker and Ben Kenobi in that Tatooine cantina.
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Cantina in Manayunk Starr Restaurant alumnus Josh Coffman and bar owner Khalil Mir (Hilltown Tavern, Paper Street Pub) have gone into the former Union Taco at 4161 Main St. in Manayunk with La Roca, a high-energy cantina.
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The cantina at 420 Main Street will serve beer, wine and liquor if the liquor license is approved.
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Rebel Dawn, the last book in the trilogy, ends where Han's adventures start in A New Hope — in the Mos Eisley cantina, where Obi-Wan Kenobi hires him.
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Origin and Etymology of cantina
American Spanish, from Spanish, canteen, from Italian, wine cellar — more at canteen
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First Known Use: 1844
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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