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bancal

English

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Etymology

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Spanish; see abancalar

Noun

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bancal (plural bancales)

  1. An ornamental covering, as of carpet or leather, for a bench or form.
    • 1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, page 217:
      A few rich settles and bancals, choicely carved and decorated with glazed leather hangings of the sort termed or basané, completed the furniture of the apartment.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bancal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Etymology

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From banc (“bench”) +‎ -al.

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Noun

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bancal m (plural bancals)

  1. storage bench
    Synonyms: arquibanc, caixabanc
  2. a piece of carpet or cloth covering furniture
  3. bed, plot, terrace, parcel (agricultural)
    Synonym: feixa
  4. predella

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Occitan bancal, from Medieval Latin bancālis, from the base of Proto-Germanic *bankiz + -alis.

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  • IPA(key): /bɑ̃.kal/
  • Audio (Canada):(file)

Adjective

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bancal (feminine bancale, masculine plural bancals, feminine plural bancales)

  1. bow-legged, bandy-legged (of person)
  2. rickety, wobbly (of table etc.)
  3. shaky, unclear, illogical

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Galician

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Etymology

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Attested since the 14th century. From banco (“bench”) +‎ -al.

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Noun

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bancal m (plural bancais)

  1. bancal
    • 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 295:
      mando esta mia cama assy como iaz con sous panos et con suas cortinas et ceo et con sous alfamares et con los outros destalos que eu trago comunalmente pela terra et con vn pano uerde et un tapete sen bançaes
      I bequeath this my bed, as it is, with its clothes and with its curtains and ceiling and with its quilts and with the other rugs that I have usually in the ground and with a green cloth and a tablecloth, no bancals
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References

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  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “bancal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bançaes”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “bancal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “bancal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “bancal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

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Noun

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bancal m (plural bancales)

  1. plot (of land, for planting)

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Noun

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bancal m (plural bancałi)

  1. pallet
  2. sill, windowsill
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