Word: perricholi
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...palace he built for her. Her end is shrouded in legend. In his novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder relates that her beauty was so marred by smallpox that she never afterwards left her mansion, except when she sought solace in a convent. Her nickname, La Perricholi, is supposedly a combination of chola, which in Peru means a woman of mixed birth, and perra, which means bitch...
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