Querencia
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Noun
- the area of the bull-ring where the bull makes its stand
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- 1994: The wolf paced and circled limping on three legs and then crouched by the iron stake where it seemed she’d made her querencia. — Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
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Noun
- an animal's lair
- (Bullfighting) the bull's querencia
- the homing instinct of an animal
- homesickness, nostalgia