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  • n  an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)
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  • Russell Studebaker: Fireball poppy is rare, desirable cultivar
    Starting from Mexico in 1541, the Spanish conquistador Francisco Coronado searched in vain for the fabled cities of gold in the plains of Texas and Kansas. A few centuries later, and not far from Wichita, I discovered a plant that is almost as rare as Coronado's gold, at least in the nursery trade.
    June 8, 2013 - Tulsa World
Quotes

  • Jerry Seinfeld in Prdomain Business Register (press release)
    4 Sep 2008 , Redmond, Wash : "This is the Conquistador," explains Jerry Seinfeld, showing a befuddled Bill Gates a brown loafer. "They run very tight."
  • Tony Judt in guardian.co.uk
    The "conquistador attitude in Israeli officers", Judt says, "gave the lie to the idea that there was something special about this war, this occupation, this army - myths that many Israelis still believe in ...... By the time I went back to...

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