vanos de orejeras

English translation: bays and openings with ornamental gadroons

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Spanish term or phrase:vanos de orejeras
English translation:bays and openings with ornamental gadroons
Entered by: Anna Moorby DipTrans

16:52 Jun 28, 2004
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Architecture
Spanish term or phrase: vanos de orejeras
Talking about features in a palace:
los palacios de Zorrilla San Martín y del Comendador, del siglo XVIII, con escudos, vanos de orejeras y balcones herrados.

Any ideas??

thanks
xx
Anna Moorby DipTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:48
bays and openings with ornamental gadroons
Explanation:
VANOS: huecos de ventanas o puertas y los intercolumnios.
OREJERAS: a special kind of ornamental gadroon edges, probably ear shaped

I've translated the sentence assisted by my old Larousse, I hope it will help you :-)

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Note added at 3 days 23 hrs 41 mins (2004-07-02 16:34:33 GMT)
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It\'s a kind of ornament in wall openings (windows) (sorry, English is not my mother language)

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Note added at 5 days (2004-07-03 18:04:46 GMT)
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Cantabria Joven - Santillana del Mar - Arte I
Casa - Palacio de Benemejís o de los Peredo - Barreda. ... Presenta una solemne portada,
vanos con orejeras y escudo en lo alto con las armas de los Peredo. ...
www.cantabriajoven.com/santillana/ocio/arte2.html - 14k - En

If you visit this page you will see a photograph where you can see what a vano con orejera is

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Note added at 5 days (2004-07-03 18:07:37 GMT)
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Cantabria Joven - Santillana del Mar - Arte I
Casa - Palacio de Benemejís o de los Peredo - Barreda. ... Presenta una solemne portada,
vanos con orejeras y escudo en lo alto con las armas de los Peredo. ...
www.cantabriajoven.com/santillana/ocio/arte2.html - 14k - En

If you visit this page you will see a photograph where you can see what a vano con orejera is

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Note added at 5 days (2004-07-03 19:13:16 GMT)
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Cantabria Joven - Santillana del Mar - Arte I
Casa - Palacio de Benemejís o de los Peredo - Barreda. ... Presenta una solemne portada,
vanos con orejeras y escudo en lo alto con las armas de los Peredo. ...
www.cantabriajoven.com/santillana/ocio/arte2.html - 14k - En

If you visit this page you will see a photograph where you can see what a vano con orejera is

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Note added at 5 days (2004-07-03 20:29:14 GMT)
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Cantabria Joven - Santillana del Mar - Arte I
Casa - Palacio de Benemejís o de los Peredo - Barreda. ... Presenta una solemne portada,
vanos con orejeras y escudo en lo alto con las armas de los Peredo. ...
www.cantabriajoven.com/santillana/ocio/arte2.html - 14k - En

If you visit this page you will see a photograph where you can see what a vano con orejera is

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Note added at 5 days (2004-07-04 01:36:31 GMT)
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Cantabria Joven - Santillana del Mar - Arte I
Casa - Palacio de Benemejís o de los Peredo - Barreda. ... Presenta una solemne portada,
vanos con orejeras y escudo en lo alto con las armas de los Peredo. ...
www.cantabriajoven.com/santillana/ocio/arte2.html - 14k - En

If you visit this page you will see a photograph where you can see what a vano con orejera is
Selected response from:

Carmen Loren
Grading comment
Thanks guys, especially Carmen!
xx
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bays and openings with ornamental gadroons


Explanation:
VANOS: huecos de ventanas o puertas y los intercolumnios.
OREJERAS: a special kind of ornamental gadroon edges, probably ear shaped

I've translated the sentence assisted by my old Larousse, I hope it will help you :-)

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 3 days 23 hrs 41 mins (2004-07-02 16:34:33 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

It\'s a kind of ornament in wall openings (windows) (sorry, English is not my mother language)

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 5 days (2004-07-03 18:04:46 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Cantabria Joven - Santillana del Mar - Arte I
Casa - Palacio de Benemejís o de los Peredo - Barreda. ... Presenta una solemne portada,
vanos con orejeras y escudo en lo alto con las armas de los Peredo. ...
www.cantabriajoven.com/santillana/ocio/arte2.html - 14k - En

If you visit this page you will see a photograph where you can see what a vano con orejera is

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 5 days (2004-07-03 18:07:37 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Cantabria Joven - Santillana del Mar - Arte I
Casa - Palacio de Benemejís o de los Peredo - Barreda. ... Presenta una solemne portada,
vanos con orejeras y escudo en lo alto con las armas de los Peredo. ...
www.cantabriajoven.com/santillana/ocio/arte2.html - 14k - En

If you visit this page you will see a photograph where you can see what a vano con orejera is

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 5 days (2004-07-03 19:13:16 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Cantabria Joven - Santillana del Mar - Arte I
Casa - Palacio de Benemejís o de los Peredo - Barreda. ... Presenta una solemne portada,
vanos con orejeras y escudo en lo alto con las armas de los Peredo. ...
www.cantabriajoven.com/santillana/ocio/arte2.html - 14k - En

If you visit this page you will see a photograph where you can see what a vano con orejera is

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 5 days (2004-07-03 20:29:14 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Cantabria Joven - Santillana del Mar - Arte I
Casa - Palacio de Benemejís o de los Peredo - Barreda. ... Presenta una solemne portada,
vanos con orejeras y escudo en lo alto con las armas de los Peredo. ...
www.cantabriajoven.com/santillana/ocio/arte2.html - 14k - En

If you visit this page you will see a photograph where you can see what a vano con orejera is

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 5 days (2004-07-04 01:36:31 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Cantabria Joven - Santillana del Mar - Arte I
Casa - Palacio de Benemejís o de los Peredo - Barreda. ... Presenta una solemne portada,
vanos con orejeras y escudo en lo alto con las armas de los Peredo. ...
www.cantabriajoven.com/santillana/ocio/arte2.html - 14k - En

If you visit this page you will see a photograph where you can see what a vano con orejera is

Carmen Loren
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks guys, especially Carmen!
xx

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  ------ (X): Could it be a kind of carved wooden latticework? I searched for opening+harem. Orejera comes from oreja not because of the form but of the function. It has to do with eavesdroppers.
4 days
  -> I don't think so. What you mean "celosía". Vanos de orejeras refer to the decorated stone that surrounds a window in some old Spanish buildings.
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