Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
máscara de arame
English translation:
wire mask
Added to glossary by
rhandler
Oct 19, 2006 17:05
17 yrs ago
Portuguese term
máscara de arame
Portuguese to English
Social Sciences
Anthropology
This is an account of an attack on two farm labourers in 1912 in the Azores by a group of vigilantes in disguise - "dois com máscaras de arame". Now, the term is used nowadays for the mask worn in the sport of fencing and a beekeeper's veil, but the context is the rural Azores at the beginning of the last century. Can anyone suggest a convincing translation?
Proposed translations
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| 4 +2 | wire mask |
rhandler
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| 3 | gauze veil masks |
muitoprazer (X)
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| 3 -1 | barbed wire mask |
Susy Ordaz
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Proposed translations
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wire mask
Wire masks have been used for a long time. Look at this example, on the Carnival of Venice:
7kty210 txt
Then toward spring I should like to go to Florence and Venice, and visit the ... Everybody wore or carried a wire mask as protection against this white, ...
www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7kty210.txt
Also, baseball players (catchers) wear wire masks, and have done this much before 1912. Look at this example:
eReader.com: Excerpt from My TeamBack in the early part of the last century , catchers didn ' t have any ignorance tools except a crude wire mask . They squatted back behind the plate with ...
www.ereader.com/.../book/excerpt/22448?book=My_Team:_Choosi...
Bassmedia - css, html, aplikacje internetowe
(Baseball) The catcher's wire mask. [1913 Webster] ... called because an English family named Gage imported the greengage from France, in the last century. ...
www.bassmedia.art.pl/rage
7kty210 txt
Then toward spring I should like to go to Florence and Venice, and visit the ... Everybody wore or carried a wire mask as protection against this white, ...
www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7kty210.txt
Also, baseball players (catchers) wear wire masks, and have done this much before 1912. Look at this example:
eReader.com: Excerpt from My TeamBack in the early part of the last century , catchers didn ' t have any ignorance tools except a crude wire mask . They squatted back behind the plate with ...
www.ereader.com/.../book/excerpt/22448?book=My_Team:_Choosi...
Bassmedia - css, html, aplikacje internetowe
(Baseball) The catcher's wire mask. [1913 Webster] ... called because an English family named Gage imported the greengage from France, in the last century. ...
www.bassmedia.art.pl/rage
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Susy Ordaz
: Sounds nice Ralph.
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Thank you, Suzy.
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| agree |
Cristiane Gomes
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Obrigado, Cristiane.
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3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "I thought the Venice Carnival example was quite interesting, and at least contemporary with my text. I don't think we'll ever get to the bottom of this, and the author has been dead this last 80 years."
33 mins
gauze veil masks
http://mrstrellis.cream.org/?m=20051014 except here the gauze referred to is metallic.
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27 mins
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barbed wire mask
barbed wire mask
Could it be this?
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Note added at 58 mins (2006-10-19 18:03:43 GMT)
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Your're right, my mistake.
Could it be this?
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Note added at 58 mins (2006-10-19 18:03:43 GMT)
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Your're right, my mistake.
Note from asker:
| Nice of you to contribute, Susy, as always, but barbed wire was invented in Illinois in 1874 and I doubt it was in use in the Azores in 1912. Not sure how it would disguise you either. lexical |
Peer comment(s):
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muitoprazer (X)
: barbed wire is a deterrent barring entry to undesirable people/ animals,and unlikely to be worn on face as it would rip flesh.
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Well I thought that was the whole idea...the phrase refers to an attack suffered by two farm labourers. But maybe I'm wrong.
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