balsero

From Spanish balsero.

balsero (plural balseros)

1. A refugee who travels from Cuba to America by sea.
   • 1997 February 7, Fred Camper, “Anti-Masterpieces”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     If Manglano-Ovalle sympathizes with the balseros, Kara Walker's installation at the Renaissance Society is so over-the-top it can hardly be reduced to a simple argument.

• balsero on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Rabelos, Rosabel, arbelos, labrose, solebar

From balsa (“raft”) +‎ -ero.

• IPA^(key): /balˈseɾo/ [balˈse.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: bal‧se‧ro

balsero m (plural balseros, feminine balsera, feminine plural balseras)

1. balsero

• “balsero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024