calça de pano pedrês

English translation: black-and-white speckled pants / trousers

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Portuguese term or phrase:calça de pano pedrês
English translation:black-and-white speckled pants / trousers
Entered by: Barbara Cochran, MFA

17:05 Nov 14, 2018
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / In The Introduction To A Novel
Portuguese term or phrase: calça de pano pedrês
Context (description of what a man was wearing when he entered prison, early 19th century):

...vestido com jaqueta de baetão azul, colete de fustão pintado e calça de pano pedrês...

Muita Obrigada,

Barbara
Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 04:53
black-and-white speckled pants / trousers
Explanation:
pedrês: (adj) sarapintado de preto e branco
https://dicionario.priberam.org/pedrês

pedrês: black-and-white speckled
https://en.bab.la/dictionary/portuguese-english/pedrês

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Oliver Simões
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Local time: 01:53
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4 +4black-and-white speckled pants / trousers
Oliver Simões
4salt and pepper pantaloons
Nick Taylor


  

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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
black-and-white speckled pants / trousers


Explanation:
pedrês: (adj) sarapintado de preto e branco
https://dicionario.priberam.org/pedrês

pedrês: black-and-white speckled
https://en.bab.la/dictionary/portuguese-english/pedrês

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Note added at 23 mins (2018-11-14 17:28:19 GMT)
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Something like this?
https://dtpmhvbsmffsz.cloudfront.net/posts/2015/07/11/55a12c...

Oliver Simões
United States
Local time: 01:53
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 56

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ana Cravidao
10 mins
  -> Obrigado, Ana.

agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
15 mins
  -> Obrigado, Teresa,

agree  Katarina Peters
1 hr
  -> Obrigado, Katarina.

agree  Margarida Ataide
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  -> Obrigado, Margarida.
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
salt and pepper pantaloons


Explanation:
salt and pepper pantaloons

Nick Taylor
Local time: 09:53
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 119
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