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Sentence 10 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

Todas, sin excepción, estaban vestidas con traje de bailarina, del mismo color de cada víbora.

All of them, without exception, were dressed in ballerina costume, each in the colour of her own kind.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Todas todoall, every; everything (adj./pron.)
sin sinwithout (prep.)
excepción excepciónexception (n., f.)
estaban estarto be — where a thing is, or how it is right now, against ser, what it is (v.)
vestidas vestirto dress; vestido de — dressed in (v.)
con conwith (prep.)
traje trajesuit, dress (n., m.)
de deof, from (prep.)
bailarina bailarinadancer (n., f.)
del delof the, from the (de + el)
mismo mismosame; himself, itself (adj.)
color colorcolour (n., m.)
cada cadaeach, every (adj.)
víbora víborasnake, viper (n., f.)

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