anjeo

anjeo

Spanish

Etymology

From Occitan Angeu (“Anjou”), the name of the province where it was originally made.

Noun

anjeo m (plural anjeos)

1. a kind of coarse linen cloth
2. (Colombia) a mesh placed over a door or window to let in air and keep out insects; a window screen
   • 1985, Gabriel García Márquez, El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Vintage (2003), page 322:

     Era una típica casa antillana pintada toda de amarillo hasta el techo de cinc, con ventanas de anjeo y tiestos de claveles y helechos colgados en el portal[.]

     It was a typical Antillean house, painted yellow even to the tin roof, with burlap windows and pots of carnations and ferns hanging in the doorway.

   Synonym: mosquitero

Further reading

• “anjeo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014