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el Redondo (in context)

English translation: en redondo/in a circular fashion


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Spanish term or phrase:el Redondo (in context)
English translation:en redondo/in a circular fashion
Entered by: David Brown
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20:31 Sep 26, 2006
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Social Sciences - Archaeology / Mexico
Spanish term or phrase: el Redondo (in context)
This is from a late-16th-cen. writer, and I cannot figure out what "el Redondo" (the second, capitalized, instance of the word) means ---

Un cerro antiquísimo que está dentro [de la ciudad] hecho a mano todo de adobes, que, antiguamente, estaba hecho en redondo y, ahora, con las cuadras de las calles, está cuadrado. Tiene el pedestal [...] dos mil y cuatrocientos pasos comunes; tiene el alto este pedestal cuarenta varas, encima del cual pueden caber diez mil personas. Después va subiendo el cerro el Redondo […] otras cuarenta varas; de manera que todo su altor son ochenta varas [...]
Patricia Rosas
United States
Local time: 11:03
en redondo/in a circular fashion
Explanation:
Today you walk past Brodick Castle and up Glen Rosa before descending down ... the distillery before heading inland in a **circular fashion** to Ballygrant. ...
www.letsgobiking.com/walking_scotland_island_hopping.html - 22k
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David Brown
Local time: 20:03
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I am so impressed with your answer. THank you very much. I'm going to ask for the clients' input, but I think that given this is a handwritten ms. it is quite likely that it should have been "en redondo". I also had not seen the link, which is good to have, too. THANKS!
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en redondo/in a circular fashion


Explanation:
Today you walk past Brodick Castle and up Glen Rosa before descending down ... the distillery before heading inland in a **circular fashion** to Ballygrant. ...
www.letsgobiking.com/walking_scotland_island_hopping.html - 22k

David Brown
Local time: 20:03
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Grading comment
I am so impressed with your answer. THank you very much. I'm going to ask for the clients' input, but I think that given this is a handwritten ms. it is quite likely that it should have been "en redondo". I also had not seen the link, which is good to have, too. THANKS!
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