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Tourism & Travel | | Spanish term or phrase: bestiario festivo | "Se utiliza la iconografia y bestiario festivo: banderolas, estandartes, gigantes, cabezudos..."
I am thinking this is something like "floats" (like those that you would see at a parade or at Mardi Gras. |
| Greg FeehanKudoZ activityQuestions: 10 (none open) Answers: 28
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| | festive bestiary/ feast-day bestiary | Explanation:
I'd say the collection of beasts are possibly on the floats, but you should be able to work this out from the context. See links below:
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Resultados de la búsquedaThe Medieval Bestiary - [ Traducir esta página ]10 Apr 2009 ... An online repository of information on the Medieval Book of Beasts - the Bestiary - its history, meaning and sources; and on animals in the ...
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Bestiary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - [ Traducir esta página ]A bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various ...
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Encyclopedia Mythica: Bestiary. - [ Traducir esta página ]The available articles in the Bestiary area. ... In the European Middle Ages a bestiary was a collection of stories, each based on a description of certain ...
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The Aberdeen Bestiary Project - University of Aberdeen - [ Traducir esta página ]The website of the Aberdeen Bestiary Project, part of the Historic Collections at the University of Aberdeen.
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Fantastic... Bestiary - [ Traducir esta página ]By the time of the early Enlightenment, the Bestiary, like its more recnent relative the Encyclopedia, participates in the totalizing intent of a catalogue ...
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 Christine Walsh
Local time: 16:12
| Grading comment I guess this is what we're going with! Thanks :)
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1 hr confidence: fantastical creatures
Explanation:
My initial impression is that the author is alluding to the fantastical animal imagery of medieval bestiaries that showed the people of Europe these unbelievable, incredible, and often made-up animals from the far corners of the earth--lions and tigers, gryphons, unicorns, etc. Many of the imaginary beasts in a beastiary combined parts of two or more animals.
Said St. Bernard of Clairvoux about bestiary imagery: "What profit is there in those ridiculous monsters, in that marvelous and deformed comeliness, that comely deformity? To what purpose are those unclean apes, those fierce lions, those monstrous centaurs, those half men, those striped tigers, those fighting knights, those hunters winding their horns? Many bodies are seen under one head, or again many heads to one body. Here is a four-footed beast with a serpent’s tail; there a fish with a beast’s head. Here again the fore-part of a horse trails half a goat behind it, or a horned beast bears the hind quarters of a horse."
Here's an interesting compendium of typical creatures from medieval beastiaries:
http://bestiary.ca/index.html
|  Kathryn Litherland
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20 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +3 festive bestiary/ feast-day bestiary
Explanation:
I'd say the collection of beasts are possibly on the floats, but you should be able to work this out from the context. See links below:
Resultados 1 - 10 de aproximadamente 986.000 de bestiary. (0,21 segundos)
Resultados de la búsquedaThe Medieval Bestiary - [ Traducir esta página ]10 Apr 2009 ... An online repository of information on the Medieval Book of Beasts - the Bestiary - its history, meaning and sources; and on animals in the ...
bestiary.ca/ - 4k - En caché - Páginas similares
Beasts
Introduction
Manuscripts
Digital Text Library Contents
Articles
Bibliography
Encyclopedia
Más resultados de bestiary.ca »
Bestiary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - [ Traducir esta página ]A bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestiary - 42k - En caché - Páginas similares
Bestiary on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music ...MySpace Music profile for Bestiary. Download Bestiary music singles, watch music videos, listen to free streaming mp3s, & read Bestiary's blog.
www.myspace.com/bestiarykill - 117k - En caché - Páginas similares
Encyclopedia Mythica: Bestiary. - [ Traducir esta página ]The available articles in the Bestiary area. ... In the European Middle Ages a bestiary was a collection of stories, each based on a description of certain ...
www.pantheon.org/areas/bestiary/articles.html - 3k - En caché - Páginas similares
The Aberdeen Bestiary Project - University of Aberdeen - [ Traducir esta página ]The website of the Aberdeen Bestiary Project, part of the Historic Collections at the University of Aberdeen.
www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/bestiary.hti - 11k - En caché - Páginas similares
Fantastic... Bestiary - [ Traducir esta página ]By the time of the early Enlightenment, the Bestiary, like its more recnent relative the Encyclopedia, participates in the totalizing intent of a catalogue ...
fantastic.library.cornell.edu/bestiary.php - 9k - En caché - Páginas similares
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Note added at 42 mins (2009-04-30 00:36:42 GMT)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestiary
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Note added at 4 hrs (2009-04-30 04:02:31 GMT) Post-grading
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Glad to be of help.
| Christine Walsh
Local time: 16:12
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:  English, Spanish
PRO pts in category: 12
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| | Grading comment | I guess this is what we're going with! Thanks :) |
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