Crossword-Solution: DECIMA 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The first occasion was at a big gathering of gauchos when Barboza was asked and graciously consented to sing a _decima_--a song or ballad consisting of four ten-line stanzas.

The _decima_ he now started to sing related to his early experiences, and swaying his body from side to side and bending forward until his beard was all over his knees he began in his raucous voice: En el ano mil ochocientos y quarenta, Quando citaron todos los enrolados, which, roughly translated, means: Eighteen hundred and forty was the year When all the enrolled were cited to appear.

And so it went on to the end--boastful stanza and insulting remarks from Marcos; and by the time the _decima_ ended a dozen or twenty men had forced themselves in between the two so that there could be no fight on this occasion.

Ita amborum exercitu conjuncto, Marium jam in hiberna proficiscentem, vix decima parte die[534] reliqua, invadunt, rati noctem, quae jam aderat, et victis sibi munimento fore et, si vicissent, nullo impedimento,[535] quia locorum scientes erant, contra Romania utrumque casum in tenebris difficiliorem fore.

Abricot? She is the daughter of a wealthy China merchant in the Decima Bazaar, a person of the highest merit; but she would be very dear: her parents, who think a great deal of her, will not let her go under a hundred yen[A] a month.