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a tiracolo

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a tiracolo (not comparable)

  1. 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.