Meaning of lareira | Babel Free

Definitions

1. fireplace
   feminine
2. hearth
   feminine
3. hearthstone
   feminine
4. crossbar (for keeping a door closed)
   feminine

Equivalents

Examples

“Ó redor da lareira, na cuciña da casa máis chea do logar de Outeiro, xunta estaba a familia. O patrón sentado no escano cos pés fóra e por riba das zocas, quentábase, ó mesmo tempo que, cun forquito bandexaba os toxos, que dempois metía pra debaixo do caldeiro; a muller, sentada no chan, partía os cachelos pró caldo, ia herdeira, filla úneca daquel xuntoiro e xoia daquela casa, fiaba na roca os cerros, prá tea do ano.”

The family was reunited around the hearth, in the kitchen of the fullest house of the hamlet of Outeiro. The head of the household was sitting on the bench, his feet out and on the clogs, warming while he was shaking the furzes with a poke before placing them under the cauldron; the wife, sitting on the ground, was snapping the potatoes for the broth, and the heir, only child of that union and that home's jewel, was spinning the flax, for the year's cloth.

“c. 1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana, Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 30”

It was tossing gushes away, and they were falling around the fire and the hearthstone

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