faceira
Galician
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editfaceira m (plural faceiras)
- cheek
- 1836, anonymous author, Tertulia de Picaños:
- si houbese quen lle dixêse ó que pasa ¿como habia de consentir cos da Cruña comesen á duas faceiras, é os de Santiago morresen de fame?
- if there were someone to tell her what's happening, how would she allow that the people of A Coruña eat with both cheeks whilst the people of Santiago starve?
- jowl
- farmland
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edit- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “faceira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “faceira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “faceira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
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editfaceira f