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English: blond ease

Portuguese translation: simplicidade/informalidade/descontração nórdica







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English term or phrase:blond ease
Portuguese translation:simplicidade/informalidade/descontração nórdica
Entered by:Marsel de Souza
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Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Swedish Design
English term or phrase: blond ease
"The style labels Swedish Grace and Swedish Modern were coined in the 1920s and 1930s by foreign journalists to describe as typically Swedish a sense of BLOND ease, elegance, and lightness."

Texto sobre a história do design sueco. Alguma sugestão para "BLOND" nesse contexto?

Obrigado!
Marsel de Souza
United Kingdom
Clarification request(s) and response
Marsel de Souza (asker): 4:10pm Jun 11, 2005: Obrigado aos colegas que responderam até agora. Estou em busca de algo que mantenha a fluência e naturalidade do texto.
Maria Lopes: 3:46am Jun 17, 2005: Ficou muito bem o "descontração" para "ease"; de cara não me ocorreu, salut! :-) -

simplicidade (informalidade) nórdicas
Explanation:
Uma idéia, salut Marsel! :-)

BLOND ---> 1. (adj.) Light in coloring:
• fair • fair-skinned • peaches-and-cream • Caucasian • Caucasoid
• Nordic • Viking • fair-haired • flaxen-haired • light-complexioned
• light-skinned • pale-complexioned • white • dark (antonym)
• dark-skinned (antonym) {American Heritage Dictionary}

EASE ---> 7. (n.) Lack or avoidance of formality:
• casualness
• artlessness
• informality
• naturalness
• nonchalance
• simplicity
• unaffectedness {American Heritage Dictionary}
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Maria Lopes
Brazil
Note from asker to answerer
Grande "sacada", Maria! Muito obrigado a você e a todos os colegas que se dispuseram a ajudar.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +2simplicidade (informalidade) nórdicas
Maria Lopes
5 +1leveza dourada
Lumen
2 +2louro
Mårten Sandberg
3sublimadajorges
3sensação de leveza/ naturalidade do cabelo louro sueco
Claudio Mazotti


  

Answers

8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +2
blond louro

Explanation:
Em tudo caso não somos todos assim louros e branquinhos...:^D

Mårten Sandberg
Sweden
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree James Cook: loiro
35 mins
  -> ok, mas qual é a diferenc,a entre os dois?

agree rguerra: louro ou loiro (das duas formas) natural.
8 hrs
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36 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
sensação de leveza/ naturalidade do cabelo louro sueco

Explanation:
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Claudio Mazotti
Brazil
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 52
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
leveza dourada

Explanation:
"The style labels Swedish Grace and Swedish Modern were coined in the 1920s and 1930s by foreign journalists to describe as typically Swedish a sense of BLOND ease, elegance, and lightness."

As expressões Graça Sueca e Sueco Moderno foram cunhadas nas décadas de 20 e 30 por jornalistas estrangeiros para descrever uma atmosfera de conforto, elegância e leveza dourada, típica da Suécia.

Lumen
Brazil
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Walkiria De Sousa
3 days16 hrs
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
simplicidade (informalidade) nórdicas

Explanation:
Uma idéia, salut Marsel! :-)

BLOND ---> 1. (adj.) Light in coloring:
• fair • fair-skinned • peaches-and-cream • Caucasian • Caucasoid
• Nordic • Viking • fair-haired • flaxen-haired • light-complexioned
• light-skinned • pale-complexioned • white • dark (antonym)
• dark-skinned (antonym) {American Heritage Dictionary}

EASE ---> 7. (n.) Lack or avoidance of formality:
• casualness
• artlessness
• informality
• naturalness
• nonchalance
• simplicity
• unaffectedness {American Heritage Dictionary}

Maria Lopes
Brazil
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
Note from asker to answerer
Grande "sacada", Maria! Muito obrigado a você e a todos os colegas que se dispuseram a ajudar.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Lumen: gostei!
1 day49 mins
  -> Thanks Lumen! :-)

agree Walkiria De Sousa: gostei da leveza da Denise, mas que sua resposta matou a charada.
3 days9 hrs
  -> Obrigada Walkiria! :-)
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1 day9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
sublimada

Explanation:
Tendo em conta a mulher loura, idealizada/divinizada, do Renascimento.

jorges
Portugal
PRO pts in category: 8
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