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Sentence 12 of 83 · Las medias de los flamencos, Horacio Quiroga, 1918

Y las más espléndidas de todas eran las víboras de coral, que estaban vestidas con larguísimas gasas rojas, blancas y negras, y bailaban como serpentinas.

And the most splendid of all were the coral snakes, who were dressed in very long gauzes of red, white and black, and danced like paper streamers.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Y yand (conj.)
las elthe (masculine)
más másmore, most (adv.)
espléndidas espléndidosplendid (adj.)
de deof, from (prep.)
todas todoall, every; everything (adj./pron.)
eran serto be — what a thing IS, against estar, how it is right now (v.)
víboras víborasnake, viper (n., f.)
coral coralcoral; víbora de coral — coral snake (n., m.)
que quethat, which, who; than (conj./rel. pron.)
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.)
larguísimas largolong (adj.)
gasas gasagauze (n., f.)
rojas rojored (adj.)
blancas blancowhite (adj.)
negras negroblack (adj.)
bailaban bailarto dance (v.)
como comoas, like; since (conj./adv.)
serpentinas serpentinapaper streamer (n., f.)

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