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One sentence of «Las medias de los flamencos»
Pero no eran medias, sino cueros de víboras de coral, lindísimos cueros recién sacados a las víboras que la lechuza había cazado.
But they were not stockings — they were the skins of coral snakes, lovely skins freshly stripped from snakes the owl had hunted.
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Y echando a volar, dejó solos a los flamencos; y al rato volvió con las medias.
And taking flight, she left the flamingos alone; and after a while she came back with the stockings.
Every word in it
| As printed | Dictionary form | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Pero | pero | but (conj.) |
| no | no | no, not (adv.) |
| eran | ser | to be — what a thing IS, against estar, how it is right now (v.) |
| medias | media | stocking (n., f.) |
| sino | sino | but rather (conj.) |
| cueros | cuero | hide, skin (n., m.) |
| de | de | of, from (prep.) |
| víboras | víbora | snake, viper (n., f.) |
| coral | coral | coral; víbora de coral — coral snake (n., m.) |
| lindísimos | lindo | lovely, pretty (adj., the everyday River Plate word for nice) |
| recién | recién | just, newly (adv.) |
| sacados | sacar | to take out, pull out; to remove (v.) |
| a | a | to; at; on (prep.) |
| las | el | the (def. art., f. pl.); also them (f. object pron., before a verb) |
| que | que | that, which, who; than (conj./rel. pron.) |
| lechuza | lechuza | owl (n., f.) |
| había | haber | to have (auxiliary); hay — there is, there are (v.) |
| cazado | cazar | to hunt (v.) |
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