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di·ab·lo

 (dē-ä′blō)
adj.
Diable.

[Alteration (influenced by Spanish diablo, devil) of diable.]
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References in classic literature ?
Diablo, which bulked, twin-peaked, greencrinkled, against the sky.
His first thought was that it was the dump of a mine tunnel, but remembering that he was not in gold-bearing country, he dismissed the scar from his mind and continued the circle of his survey to the southeast, where, across the waters of San Pablo Bay, he could see, sharp and distant, the twin peaks of Mount Diablo. To the south was Mount Tamalpais, and, yes, he was right, fifty miles away, where the draughty winds of the Pacific blew in the Golden Gate, the smoke of San Francisco made a low-lying haze against the sky.
"You just have to go out and pitch," says Bronswell Patrick, a former Milwaukee Brewers and San Francisco Giants player, now with the Mexico City Diablos Bojos (Bed Devils).
(24.) "?[q]ue tengo de dormir, pesia a ml -- respondio Sancho, Ileno de pesadumbre y de despecho --, que no parece sino que todos los diablos han andado conmigo esta noche?" (Cervantes, 1987, 1:207).
The Diablos are a two-way, acoustic suspension design consisting of a 7-inch Kevlar woofer sourced from Eton in Germany and a 0.75-inch titanium tweeter from MB.