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tertulia

ter-TOOL-yah[teɾˈtulja]

a regular get-together to talk, often in a café — a salon

Closest in English: salon, gathering, get-together. None of them covers it.

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Madrid's cafés were famous for them: the same table on the same evening every week, writers and painters arguing for hours over one coffee. Some ran for decades and had rules about who could sit down. English would call it a salon, with fewer chandeliers.

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  1. Which language is it from?Spanish
  2. When was it at its height?Madrid cafés, around 1915
  3. Where would you hear it?The same café table every Thursday
  4. What does it mean?A regular meeting to talk books and politics

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