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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

porte en acier peint

English translation:

painted steel door

Added to glossary by schevallier
Apr 28, 2008 20:48
16 yrs ago
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French term

portes en acier peint

French to English Other Furniture / Household Appliances
Description of a console desk. The complete sentence is:
Accès total à l'arrière (panneaux amovibles en "Compact") et à l'avant du pupitre (portes en acier peint) par les caissons techniques"

So, obviously, portes = doors, acier = steel and peint = paint, but I'm not getting very many ghits, which makes me think that there is a specific term for this that I'm missing...

Thanks for all of your help.
Sara
Proposed translations (English)
3 +3 painted steel doors
Change log

Apr 29, 2008 07:52: schevallier Created KOG entry

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Non-PRO (1): writeaway

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Discussion

Sara Mullin (asker) Apr 28, 2008:
Thanks, Tony.
Tony M Apr 28, 2008:
I don't think it's a case of being a specific term, so much as the fact that this particular collocation is purely fortuitous. You might fine '(stove-)enamelled' for 'peint', but it's dangerous to be so specific — it might equally well be 'lacqueured'

Proposed translations

+3
57 mins
Selected

painted steel doors

why not then...
seems it can't really have too many meanings

(pre-painted steel door. It is 1 3/8" (35mm) thick and is ...)

IMO


Reference:

http://www.garaga.com/commercial-garage-doors.

Peer comment(s):
agree Ethele Salem Sperling
43 mins
Thanks Ethele!
agree Gina W
4 hrs
Thanks gad!
agree Mary Carroll Richer LaFlèche
8 hrs
Thanks Mary Carroll!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks! Perhaps it was just a case of the late-night doubts creeping in that made me wonder :-)"