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acogen sendos cuerpos de campanas.

English translation: that house the two bells

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Spanish term or phrase:	acogen sendos cuerpos de campanas.
English translation:	that house the two bells
Entered by:	Dave Pugh

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14:46 Jan 12, 2009

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Spanish term or phrase: acogen sendos cuerpos de campanas.

De cara al exterior, la iglesia destaca por sus dos espadañas barrocas que acogen sendos cuerpos de campanas.
Talking about la iglesia del carmen (Cádiz).
Thanks in advance.

Dave Pugh KudoZ activity Questions: 263 (2 open) (6 closed without grading) Answers: 80
Local time: 21:09

that house the two bells

Explanation:
I don't think you need to translate "cuerpos". Or you could say "that house both of the bells"

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Or even jus "that house both bells"

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ElGuiri
Spain
Local time: 21:09

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This goes well.
Thanks everyone.
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that house the two bells

ElGuiri

3 +2

that house/hold (each of) the two sets of bells / the bell frames

Noni Gilbert

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"cuerpo"

solejnicz

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peer agreement (net): +2

that house the two bells

ElGuiri
Spain
Local time: 21:09
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

This goes well.
Thanks everyone.

26 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

that house/hold (each of) the two sets of bells / the bell frames

Explanation:
I've had a look at some pics of this church and, as I suspected, we are not talking about one bell per belltower/frame/section - I can make out spaces for at least three per tower. http://images.google.es/images?hl=es&q=iglesia carmen cadiz&... (the Espadaña del Carmen in Avila which I pass regularly has room for a large number of bells - hence my suspicions!).

Belfry is a term used for cuerpo de campana on occasions, but to my mind a belfry is more of an enclosed/square structure. Cuerpo de campana is more the space in which the bell hangs and the frame around it. Hence the ever useful term "set"! I've given you frames as well if you want to be more literal.

Noni Gilbert
Local time: 21:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 124

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47 mins

Reference: "cuerpo"

Reference information:
I think "cuerpo" is in this context the sames as a "bell frame" or "bellframe"

Example sentence(s):

Does a church really need two bell frames, one to use and one for historians to look at?
It has long been understood that rigidity of both bellframes and towers are essential if bells hung for change ringing are to handle in a proper and predictable manner.

Reference: http://www.ely.anglican.org/parishes/gamlingay/nobells.htm
Reference: http://www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk/radial.htm

solejnicz
Netherlands
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French,

Dutch

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