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Meaning of cousela | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B1
kowˈsɛlɐ

Definitions

  1. receptacle
    feminine
  2. case, casket (a little box, for jewellery or for keeping the communion wafers)
    feminine
  3. box which takes the cereal from the hopper and drops it over the millstone, regulating the pace
    feminine

Equivalents

English box
Kurdî box

Examples

“vn rromeu alamã cõ outros de sua cõpana tomou hũa grã presa de dineiros de prata et ofereçeos sobre la cousela da cabeça de Santiago”

a pilgrim from Germany, with others from his group, took a large handful of silver coins and offered them over the receptacle of the head of [the statue representing] Saint James

“Iten que destes vos o dito Gil Peres por hũa cousela para levar as petiçoes a a Reyna, tres moravedis et por çera para seelar as peticões quatro blanquas et por papel para os testimoyos et traslados et petições hũu moravedi”

Item, that you, the aforementioned Gil Peres, gave, for a box for taking the petitions to the Queen, three moravedis, and for wax for sealing the petitions four brancas, and for paper for the testimonies, and copies, and petitions, a moravedi

“1426, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Historia de la Santa A. M. Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela, XI, nº Adicións-1.1, pp. 79-92”

another reliquary which contains a thorn of the crown of Jesus Chist, and it has two little angels and a little box in the middle, made in beryl, that holds the aforementioned thorn

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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