FONDA. _Span._ Hotel. According to Diez, from Latin _funda_, a sling, or a purse, which has also given the French _bourse_ and Spanish _bolsa_, an assembly of paying persons. See POSADA. FORA. _Port._ and _Gal._ Outside, without. FORO, FOROS. _Rom._ City, or town. P. ii. 393; Pp. 234; M. vii. 53. FORTE. _Port._ Strong. FREGONA. _Span._ A scullery maid. FRIOLERA. _Span._ A trifle. Lat. _futilitas_. FUENTE. _Span._ A fount, spring. FUERON. _Span._ They were. From _ser_. FUEROS. _Span._ Local privileges. FUNCION. _Span._ A solemnity; festival; public assemblage of people to do or see some important act. In military language, an action; then colloquially, “a row.” The barbarous English adaptation, _function_, is convenient, and is rapidly gaining ground. * * * * * GABARDINE. _O. Eng._ A long coat, or cloak, usually applied to the distinctive dress worn by the Jews under compulsion. Said to be from the Spanish and Old French _gaban_, a great coarse cloak with a hood, a word itself supposed to be connected with _capa_. GABICOTE. _Rom._ Book. Borrow seems the only authority for this word. J. has _gascote_. P. ii. 145. GABINÉ. _Rom._ A Frenchman. P. i. 54, ii. 145. GACHAPLA. _Rom._ A couplet, in poetry. Span. _copla_. P. ii. 41. GACHÓ. _Rom._ Any one who is not a gypsy; the same as Rom. _busnó_. P. ii. 129; Pp. 235; M. vii. 53; McR. 93. GALERA. _Span._ A long cart without springs; the sides are lined with matting, while beneath hangs a loose open net, as under the _calesinas_ of Naples, in which lies and barks a horrid dog, who keeps a cerberus watch over iron pots and sieves, and suchlike gypsy utensils, and who is never to be conciliated.—Ford’s _Spain_, Introd. p. 37. GALLEGO. _Span._ and _Port._ Galician; usually Anglicized by Borrow as Gallegan. The Roman _Gallaeci_ or _Callaeci_. GALLINERIA. _Span._ A hen-coop; a place for keeping _gallinas_, or chickens. GALOOT (_Galūth_). _Hebr._ Bondage, captivity. “The galoot of sin.” In the slang of the United States the word means “a simpleton.” GARBANZOS. _Span._ Chick-pease (_Cicer arietinum_). The invariable vegetable in every _olla_ and _puchero_. GARLOCHIN. _Rom._ Heart. See CARLO. GARNATA. _Arab._ Granada. See MELEGRANA. GARROTE. _Span._ and _Port._ The death penalty by strangulation, in which an iron collar fixed to a post is tightened by a screw and receives the neck of the culprit, which is broken by a sharp turn given by the executioner. _Garrote_ also means a cudgel, or heavy walking-stick; and the tourniquet used by surgeons. It is a word of strange and uncertain etymology, and is said to be connected with Span. _garra_, a claw, Fr. _jarret_, a thigh, and other apparently incongruous words.