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plural bombillas
A straw, often made of metal, ending in a filter and used for drinking maté. quotations examples
The maté is then filled with yerva, after the bombilla has been placed in position. The bombilla is literally “a little pump,” that is, a sucking tube, ending in a perforated bulb, which performs the office of the perforated diaphragm in our teapot spouts.
1856 July–October, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume IV, A. and C. Black, page 194