Meaning of testa | Babel Free

Definitions

1. forehead
   feminine
2. the whole head of a person
   feminine, figuratively
3. limit of a property
   feminine
4. fore
   feminine
5. lid
   feminine

Equivalents

Examples

“1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 133”

He had a palmspan and a half in his face, and in the beard a palmspan, and half one in the nose; and in the front he had one palmspan and a little more

“1434, A. López Carreira (ed.), Libro de Notas de Álvaro Afonso, doc. 90”

one of that horses was really dark, with a signal in his forehead, and the other was tawny with a spot in his forehead

“Dubido do que farei / Para saír desta enfeita / Maxino roer as uñas / E bourar mui ben na testa”

I'm dubious on what to do / To exit of this preparation / I imagine gnawing my nails / And ably beating my head

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