The cause of the debauch was due to the fact that Don Santiago brought up much wine, gin, vermouth, and grape chicha with his mule caravan.
The burial takes place with great lamentation and imbibitions of oceans of chicha to the tune of a lugubrious musical instrument somewhat like a drum and named a trutruca.
Peruvian chicha is an alcoholic beverage made from cereals and is akin to moonshine or corn whiskey.
This is less noxious than that which is produced by boiling the maize and adding to the chicha thus obtained a certain amount of panela, or molasses.
This, by fermentation, is next changed into alcohol, which gives to chicha its intoxicating property.
To the great amount ofchicha sold in these estancos, usually kept by women, is undoubtedly traceable the origin of the saying, Toda chichera muere rica--Every chicha vender dies rich.
There was chocolate and chicha in abundance, but no coffee, where it would be, one would think, the most common beverage.
From what, the reader will ask, and how, is chicha prepared?
It was a chicheria, and the chicha there served was evidently the cause of the good nature and general merriment that prevailed.
This learned student of Indian customs thinks that the drinking may have originated in the ceremonial offerings of chicha to the spirits.
It is a rapid intoxicant, but leaves no deleterious effect, and the man who goes upon a chicha spree will not wake up with a headache the next morning.
The dance usually ends with a wild carousal, in which men and women mingle promiscuously, embrace each other, and then go off to the chicha bars to get stimulants for the next.
The chicha of Peru is made of the juice of the sugar-cane, and the chicha of Chili of the juice of the grape.
They did not refuse, however, to quaff the sparkling chicha from golden vases of extraordinary size, presented to them by the dark-eyed beauties of the harem.
He now came in more state, quaffing chicha - the fermented juice of the maize - from golden goblets borne by his attendants, which sparkled in the eyes of the rapacious adventurers.
This sum he spends on his Sunday holiday in chicha and brandy, of which he takes as much as his money will pay for, or as he can get on credit.
When it is wished to make the chicha particularly strong and well flavored, it is poured into an earthen jar along with several pounds of beef.
Every one of their often-recurring festivals is celebrated by a drinking bout, at which enormous quantities of brandy and chicha are consumed.
Some of them, which have been found hermetically closed, have contained chicha upwards of three hundred years old, and remarkable for a very smoky flavor.
For the space of three days and nights these negritos parade the streets, entering the houses and demanding chicha and brandy, with which the inhabitants are glad to supply them, to avoid violence and insult.
In some districts of the Sierra the chicha is prepared in a peculiar and very disgusting manner by the Indians.
Fermented liquors, like the Kawa of the South Sea Islanders, or the Chicha of the Indians of Southern and Central America, seem never to have been known to the New Zealanders.
Chicha who was always hanging around, fearing her parent's bad teachings.
They came from the "mother country," and to the good Chicha were all Excelentisimas or Altisimas, related to kings.
They wanted to see Don Julio on the most absurd pretexts, and at the same time improved the opportunity to chat with Chicha and Luisa.
The good Chicha could not tolerate her daughter's growing up like a boy, parading 'round on horseback all the time, and glibly repeating her grandfather's vulgarities.
Hither, mozos, with the calabashes of chicha and wine.
They saw other Indians engaged in tapping the wild palms and ladling out calabashes full of palm-wine, while others still were preparing foaming chicha for their masters.
Prescott tells us that Atahuallpa, the Peruvian monarch, came to see the conqueror, Pizarro, "quaffing chicha from golden goblets borne by his attendants.
Footnote: Este Embajador traia servicio de Senor, i cinco o seis Vasos de Oro fino, con que bebia, i con ellos daba a beber a los Espanoles de la chicha que traia.
The peddler of chicha carries around a large stone jar, about a yard in depth.
But the owner of the heap coolly separates the animal from the vegetable, adds a little water, and drinks his chicha without ceremony.
Out of feast-time they are out of town, and during the festival they are loth to leave, or are so full of chicha they do not know what they want.
The women do most of the work, while their lazy lords drink up the chicha and swing in their hammocks, or possibly do a little hunting.
The manufacture of chicha is primitive, and not a little disgusting.
We had to wait, however, two days for the Indians to prepare their chicha for the journey and to cover the canoes with palm awnings.
The Chilotans, Darwin informs us, make chicha from a species of Bromelia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chicha" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
