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cabeceira para cama box

English translation: headboard and frame for box spring bed

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Portuguese term or phrase:cabeceira para cama box
English translation:headboard and frame for box spring bed
Entered by: Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães

01:15 May 14, 2008
Portuguese to English translations [Non-PRO]
Furniture / Household Appliances / móveis
Portuguese term or phrase: cabeceira para cama box
É só a cabeceira mesmo, sem o resto da cama. Ela possui uma peça que se chama "frame" para o encaixe do colchão box. Este é aquele colchão que se coloca um sobre o outro, sem necessidade de estrados.
simonete
headboard
Explanation:
É isso. Frame, ou raramente bedstead, é (normalmente) o estrado.

"The headboard is a piece of furniture that attaches to the head of a bed. Its most basic function is to retain the pillow(s) and other bed linens"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headboard_(furniture)

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Note added at 5 days (2008-05-19 18:01:45 GMT)
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Uma cama box completa (cabeceira/box/colchão) é um "box spring set". Pela descrição que você deu, diria "headboard and frame for box spring bed" (see also quandt's answer below).
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Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães
Brazil
Local time: 09:06
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thanks!
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3headboard
Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães
5bedhead
Fiona Stephenson
4Head board for bed
Marci Foster


  

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1 day 15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Head board for bed


Explanation:
Head board for bed.

Marci Foster
Local time: 07:06
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
bedhead


Explanation:
also called this (and spelt right this time!)

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Note added at 1 day1 hr (2008-05-15 03:03:43 GMT)
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In response to fvasconcellos, maybe its a US/Commonwealth English thing. Note here, it says Bedhead (with headboard in brackets): http://sydney.gumtree.com.au/c-ViewAd?AdId=45711109

and look here - it says "bedhead slip cover"
http://www.okadirect.com/bedroom-and-bathroom/bed-slip-cover...

even the London Stock Exchange website has it (admittedly with headboard in brackets:
http://www.londonstockexchange.com/en-gb/global/H/Search?q=F...

Also, the Merriam Webster dictionary says "bedhead - the head of a bed"

and speaking of which, I'm off to mine now zzzzzzzzzz

Fiona Stephenson
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:06
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães: Wow, I never heard it as such—usually associate "bedhead" with the condition of your hair when you get up in the morning :)
11 hrs
  -> ha ha, nothing to do with hair, at least not in the UK. See my additional note above.
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
headboard


Explanation:
É isso. Frame, ou raramente bedstead, é (normalmente) o estrado.

"The headboard is a piece of furniture that attaches to the head of a bed. Its most basic function is to retain the pillow(s) and other bed linens"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headboard_(furniture)

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Note added at 5 days (2008-05-19 18:01:45 GMT)
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Uma cama box completa (cabeceira/box/colchão) é um "box spring set". Pela descrição que você deu, diria "headboard and frame for box spring bed" (see also quandt's answer below).


    Reference: http://www.headboardstore.com/
    Reference: http://www.mariatomas.com/media/pdf/headboard_guide.pdf
Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães
Brazil
Local time: 09:06
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
Grading comment
thanks!
Notes to answerer
Asker: mas e o termo "cama box'? é traduzido?


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  R. Alex Jenkins: absolutely, headboard :)
1 min
  -> Yep :)
agree  Andrea Munhoz
8 hrs
  -> Thanks!
agree  Carlos Quandt: pela descrição, seria algo como "headboard with frame for box spring set / bed" > http://www.bizrate.com/bedroomfurniture/oid706838639.html
10 hrs
  -> Yes, sounds good.
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