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roda dos expostos

English translation: turn-box, a wooden wheel with drawers with on a church wall in which abandoned newborn children were given to up for charity ca

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Portuguese term or phrase:roda dos expostos
English translation:turn-box, a wooden wheel with drawers with on a church wall in which abandoned newborn children were given to up for charity ca
Entered by: Laerte da Silva

13:21 Apr 26, 2002
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / Sociology
Portuguese term or phrase: roda dos expostos
Historiography> it is a sort of small revolving door at children unwanted children were placed and delivered to child care institutions in the XIX century.
Laerte da Silva
Brazil
Local time: 17:00
Acho que você terá que deixar no original e explicar...
Explanation:
Entrei em um site de Igrejas, e aparentemente esta roda não tem um nome.
"In the atrium wall is a wooden wheel with drawers with which abandoned newborn children were given to the Poor Clares."

Veja em: http://home.online.no/~cnyborg/luciaselci.html

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Mariane Oliveira
Brazil
Local time: 17:00
Grading comment
Mariane,

Thanks for your help! As a matter of fact, Aida Macedo has found the term 'turn-box' in a dictionary by James Taylor. Even though I could not find any other reference, on line of off line to the term, the combination of the answers of the two of you came out much better though. Apropos, the question showed up twice.
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4 +2Acho que você terá que deixar no original e explicar...
Mariane Oliveira


  

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Acho que você terá que deixar no original e explicar...


Explanation:
Entrei em um site de Igrejas, e aparentemente esta roda não tem um nome.
"In the atrium wall is a wooden wheel with drawers with which abandoned newborn children were given to the Poor Clares."

Veja em: http://home.online.no/~cnyborg/luciaselci.html



Mariane Oliveira
Brazil
Local time: 17:00
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Mariane,

Thanks for your help! As a matter of fact, Aida Macedo has found the term 'turn-box' in a dictionary by James Taylor. Even though I could not find any other reference, on line of off line to the term, the combination of the answers of the two of you came out much better though. Apropos, the question showed up twice.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Wiebke Herbig: couldn't find anything, either. Maybe yoz should post your question as monolingual, then more native speakers would see it.
10 mins
agree  Dr. Chrys Chrystello
1 hr
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