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/Sounds like "OHN" (as in "oh") + "sehs" (as in "set")/

Meaning

An afternoon snack in Colombia, that break between lunch and dinner where you have coffee with bread, cookies, or something sweet. Colombian onces are a social ritual as important as lunch itself.

Examples

Let's go have onces at the neighborhood bakery.

My grandma always prepares onces with hot chocolate.

Regional synonyms
Bandera de Guatemala
Bandera de Honduras
Bandera de El Salvador
Bandera de Nicaragua
Bandera de Costa Rica
Merindar

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