Also 9 tolda. [Sp. toldo awning, canopy, penthouse: cf. F. taudis a shelter, a hut, OF. tauder to shelter; see Körting 9422, 9519.] a. A canopy. b. A tent, hut or hovel of the native Indians of South America.
a. 1760–72. J. Adams, trans. Juan & Ulloa’s Voy. (ed. 3), I. 159. To avoid the tortures of the Moscitos … all persons … have toldos or canopies over their beds.
1852. Th. Ross, Humboldt’s Trav., II. xx. 286. We could not make use of mosquito-curtains (toldos) while on the Orinoco.
b. 1845. Darwin, Voy. Nat., iv. (1873), 65. The Cacique Lucanee constantly have their Toldos on the outskirts of the town. Note. The hovels of the Indians are thus called.
1864. Reader, 9 April, 463/1. These toldas (or dwelling-places) are constructed only with branches of sticks, joined overhead at a height of about five feet from the ground.
1910. Blackw. Mag., June, 850/1. An old revolver may find its way into their guanaco-skin toldos.
