whitewash
 transitive verb
 calear
EN Outside Blackrock, on the road that led to the mountains, stood a small whitewashed house in the garden of which grew many rosebushes: and in this house, he told himself, another Mercedes lived.
GL Nas aforas de Blackrock, na estrada que levaba ás montañas, había unha casiña caleada, cun xardín no que medraban moitas roseiras: e na casa, dicíase, vivía outra Mercedes.
 Fonte: RET (1375)
encalar
EN This road leads through a sandy hollow, shaded by trees for about a quarter of a mile, where it crosses the bridge famous in goblin story, and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church.
GL Seguindo un camiño areoso rodeado de árbores de case medio quilómetro, ata chegar á famosa ponte da que falan as historias do espectro; xusto despois está o montículo verde onde se atopa a igrexa de muros encalados.
Fonte: LEN (297)
noun
revestimento de cal
EN "Now-forgotten building materials such as whitewash and traditional plasterwork have been analysed in laboratories abroad," says Phommavong.
GL "A análise dos materiais antigos esquecidos, dos revestimentos de cal, dos adobes tradicionais correu a cargo de laboratorios estranxeiros", sinala M. Phommavong, do Ministerio de Información e Cultura.
Fonte: C12 (683)
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