eça
English translation: catafalque
| 14:42 Mar 25, 2004 |
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|  Selected response from: Paulo Wengorski Local time: 20:16 | ||||||
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| 5 +3 | catafalque |
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| 5 | bier |
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| 3 +1 | eça |
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peer agreement (net): +1| eça eça Explanation: It could be the name of a person, like Eça de Queirós. It has no translation without the context. Or could be the name of a flower. |
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45 mins confidence:
| eça bier Explanation: a bier is a frame on which a dead body or a coffin is carried before a funeral; a table, or frame where the coffin stands. In Brazilian portuguese it's spelled 'essa'. |
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +3
peer agreement (net): +3| eça catafalque Explanation: Bier is not far from the meaning, it has also to be with burials, but it is 1. A stand on which a corpse or a coffin containing a corpse is placed before burial. 2. A coffin along with its stand (AHD), while catafalque is 1. A decorated platform or framework on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral. 2. Roman Catholic Church A coffin-shaped structure draped with a pall, used to represent the corpse at a requiem. Eça or essa generally applies to a structure laying in a church, not to be taken to the burial. |
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