coartada
/koaɾˈtada/ · B1 · noun · f
alibi
⏰ From coartar, to restrict: an alibi narrows down where you could have been
Coartar comes from Latin coarctare, to press together or confine. A coartada limits the accusation against you, because it shows you were somewhere else at that hour. The word is feminine: la coartada.