a tiracolo
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Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- a tiracollo (pre-reform)
Adverb
[edit]a tiracolo (not comparable)
- crossing a person’s chest from one side of their neck to the opposite side of the body
- Leva sempre uma bolsa a tiracolo.
- He always wears a handbag strapped across his chest.
- 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “O mundo coberto de pennas [The world covered in feathers]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives][1], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 169:
- Desejou ver aquillo de perto, levantou-se, botou o aiol a tiracollo, foi buscar o chapeo de couro e a espingarda de pederneira.
- He wanted to see that from up close, he got up, he put his bag across his chest, he went to fetch his leather had and the gunpowder shotgun.