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canon head

Portuguese translation: monte do canhão

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English term or phrase:canon head
Portuguese translation:monte do canhão
Entered by: Maria Stella Tupynambá

18:23 Aug 11, 2012
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Wine / Oenology / Viticulture / Kanonkop
English term or phrase: canon head
Contexto:

Rustenberg Estate' which also makes grand
wines in a bit of a Bordeaux resembling style,
and maybe you can also remember 'Kanonkop'
which means canon head.

Muito obrigada!
Maria Stella Tupynambá
Brazil
Local time: 03:45
monte do canhão
Explanation:
kopje = monte (Holandês)


O nome Kanonkop deriva de kopje (monte), de onde eram disparadas tiros de um canhão, no século XVII, para alertar os agricultores das áreas próximas, de que navios que viajavam pelas águas entre a Europa e o Extremo Oriente tinha entrado em Table Bay para uma paragem na Cidade do Cabo. Avisados, os agricultores carregavam as carroças, guardavam o gado e partiam para a Cidade do Cabo para vender os seus produtos, sobretudo frutos frescos e legumes, aos navegadores e viajantes que tinham passado muitos meses no ma

http://solerafloripa.blogspot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html
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Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 02:45
Grading comment
Muito obrigada a todos!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2Kanonkop
Kevin Freyburg
4monte do canhão
Marlene Curtis


  

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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Kanonkop


Explanation:
Kanonkop (which means "Canon Head" in Dutch) is the name of a fourth generation family vineyard, situated on the lower slopes of the Simonsberg Mountain in the Stellenbosch Region of the Cape in South Africa, famous for its wines.

Not to be translated!


    Reference: http://www.kanonkop.co.za/Framework/index.asp?PageName=Home
Kevin Freyburg
Local time: 03:45
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
monte do canhão


Explanation:
kopje = monte (Holandês)


O nome Kanonkop deriva de kopje (monte), de onde eram disparadas tiros de um canhão, no século XVII, para alertar os agricultores das áreas próximas, de que navios que viajavam pelas águas entre a Europa e o Extremo Oriente tinha entrado em Table Bay para uma paragem na Cidade do Cabo. Avisados, os agricultores carregavam as carroças, guardavam o gado e partiam para a Cidade do Cabo para vender os seus produtos, sobretudo frutos frescos e legumes, aos navegadores e viajantes que tinham passado muitos meses no ma

http://solerafloripa.blogspot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html


Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 02:45
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
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