Meaning of sobrado | Babel Free

Definitions

1. storey, floor, level
   archaic, masculine
2. upper floor or level of a two storey house, which was usually left undivided and where the family used to sleep in their beds
   dated, masculine
3. main room of a house
   dated, masculine
4. attic
   dated, masculine
5. wooden floor; planking
   dated, masculine

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Examples

“1347, Clara Rodríguez Núñez (ed.), "Santa María de Belvís, un convento mendicante femenino en la Baja Edad Media (1305-1400)", in Estudios Mindonienses, 5, page 425”

if the aforementioned prioress and convent would want to erect another storey or make a balcony, that they should do and build so as they don't obstruct the view of the windows of the balcony of my other house which is near this one

“Jten faser todo de nouo os peytorij́ns das ditas casas e poer jaztas e sobrejaztas, e rrecorrer o soyo dos sobrados das ditas casas.”

Item, to rebuild the parapets of the aforementioned houses, to put the bearers and the joists, and to lie down the planking of the storeys of the aforementioned houses

“Coida meu pai que me ten / debaixo do pé dereito: / Fanlle a cama no sobrado: / non sabe cando me deito.”

My dad thinks that he keeps me under his right foot; but he has his bed on the upper floor and doesn't know when I go to bed.

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