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Meaning of carantoña | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B2
kaɾanˈtoɲa

Definitions

  1. mask (especially if horrific)
    feminine
  2. caress
    feminine

Equivalents

English Antic mask

Examples

“Et en outro dia ouverõ cõsello Calrros cõ os seus caualeiros, et mãdou enbrullar as cabeças dos caualos de lenços et encher as orellas de dentro de panos, que nẽ podesen veer as carãtonas nẽ oyr as vozes da cãpaynas.”

And another day they had a council, Charlemagne with his knights, an he ordered to wrap the heads of the horses with linens and to fill their ears with clothes, so that they could not see the masks nor hear the little bells

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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