Word: piropo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surest signs of spring in Buenos Aires is the piropo, the compliment whispered to girls by young men on the prowl. Sometimes it is a simple: "Ah, mi corazón, where are you going?" More frequently it is a formularized gambit of a sort that has been used for generations. Thus, overhauling a girl in a green dress, a gay blade breathes into her ear: "You are a miracle when green; what will you be when you are ripe...
Legs Visible. On the broad boulevards of the Argentine capital last week, many a piropo was whispered, for spring, although a bit late, had finally come. The dry weather had ill portents for the grain crop, but if Porteños were worried, they did not show it. The city's parks, well shaded with ombú, palm, ceiba, and shiny-leafed magnolias, were crowded with lovers, fashionable ladies with fashionable dogs, plain people out for a stroll. Many a piropeador audibly admired the spring styles which spurned the New Look and kept legs before the male eye. Buenos...