pretext
 noun
 escusa
EN She might have invented a pretext for staying away; she might even invent a pretext now for going.
GL Puidera inventar un pretexto para manterse á marxe; mesmo agora, podía urdir unha escusa para irse.
 Fonte: ESP (3143)
pretexto
EN Everybody had been trying to lend me money, but I had fought off the most of them on one pretext or another; so this indebtedness represented only £300 borrowed money, the other £300 represented my keep and my purchases.
GL Todo o mundo tratara de emprestarme cartos pero eu rexeiteinos case todos baixo un pretexto ou outro; polo que esta débeda só equivalía a trescentas libras do total dos cartos emprestados, e as outras trescentas representaban a miña mantenza e as miñas adquisicións.
Fonte: BIL (229)
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