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Masacarón

English translation: mascaron

08:06 Sep 6, 2000
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary
Spanish term or phrase: Masacarón
I could only think of a great "explosion" of foliage... but I know there is another word associated with a lot of it... aside from "jungle" :-)

ORIGINAL CONTEXT:
Su cuerpo se prolonga en una columna acanalada que da paso a una hoja de acanto rematada por sendas volutas, tras la que se sitúa en la nuca un gran masacarón de follajes.

Incidentally any advance on "back of the head" as a translation for "Nuca" ?
Berni Armstrong
Spain
Local time: 02:00
English translation:mascaron
Explanation:
mascarón: "ARQ mascaron, grotesque mask (adorno)"
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Jon Zuber (X)
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Thanks Jon... this is almost "instantaneous" answering. Great!

"Nape" I would have got if not so brain dead and as for "mascaron" the typo was in the original... which is what threw me. It should have been obvious... you know it's time for a break when these kinds of errors of thinking start setting in, eh?

Cheers:

Berni
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Summary of answers provided
namascaron
Jon Zuber (X)
naback of the neck/nape
Jon Zuber (X)


  

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39 mins
mascaron


Explanation:
mascarón: "ARQ mascaron, grotesque mask (adorno)"


    Gran dic. esp.-ing. Larousse
Jon Zuber (X)
PRO pts in pair: 172
Grading comment
Thanks Jon... this is almost "instantaneous" answering. Great!

"Nape" I would have got if not so brain dead and as for "mascaron" the typo was in the original... which is what threw me. It should have been obvious... you know it's time for a break when these kinds of errors of thinking start setting in, eh?

Cheers:

Berni

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Carolina Ramirez
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40 mins
back of the neck/nape


Explanation:
Sorry, forgot to put this in with the above for "nuca".

Jon Zuber (X)
PRO pts in pair: 172

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