tourista

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Related to tourista: Turistas, Travellers Diarrhoea

tou·ri·sta

(to͝o-rē′stə)

n. Informal

Variant of turista.

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tour•is•ta

or tu•ris•ta

(tʊˈri stə)

n.

traveler's diarrhea, esp. as experienced in Latin America.

[1955–60; < Sp turista tourist]

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En los anos siguientes fundo su propia revista y publico sus propios libros de historieta: Le Cordon Infernal (1978), La Vie Passionnee de Therese d'Avila (1980), Les Meres (1982), Le Destin de Monique (1984), Tourista (1984), Docteur Ventouse, bobologue (1985- 1986) y Agrippine (1988-2009).

CLAIRE BRETECHER IN HUM[R] MAGAZINE (1979-1984) (OR HOW TO MAKE ARGENTINE GRAPHIC HUMOR STOP BEING A MATTER OF MEN)/CLAIRE BRETEUHER EN LA REVISTA HUM[R] (1979- 1984) (O COMO HACER PARA QUE EL HUMOR GRAFICO ARGENTINO DEJE DE SER UNA CUESTION DE HOMBRES)

Jan 28, 2015 (SeeNews) - A Czech TouristA AuthorityA plans to launchA tenderA for the purchase of advertising space for the promotion ofA World Cup Table Tennis in 2015.

Czech Tourist Authority to start advertising services tender

But the filmmakers were aware that audiences might interpret her as a sort of honorary cultural citizen or simply another outsider, a tourista. Criticism of the film came to the fore after Maclean's film critic, Brian D.

Spirits of Havana

After the bow of the Terrence McNally/David Yazbek tuner, opening nighters boarded Gray Line double-decker tourista buses that were to zip them across town to the post perf party at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.

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One of my favorite things to do in Britain is to have breakfast in the tourista hotels and hear the cacophony of dropped coffee cups as unsuspecting American visitors turn to the topless "Page Three Lovely" holding a lamp--"A-Pair-ently dee-Light-full."