carátula
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cara (“face”) or Old Spanish carátura, from Latin character.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]carátula f (plural carátulas)
- mask; disguise
- 2016 October 7, “En plena complicación judicial, Scioli visitó en secreto a Macri en Olivos”, in Clarin[1]:
- Y, además, acusó a ex funcionarios sciolistas, como Walter Carbone, quien fue subsecretario administrativo de la Jefatura de Gabinete bonaerense, investigado tras una denuncia de la diputada de Cambiemos por el fiscal Alvaro Garganta bajo la carátula de “lavado de activos y distintas defraudaciones a la administración pública”.
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- case; sleeve
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:
- Decoraban el frente del cuchitril las policromas carátulas de los cuadernillos que narraban las aventuras de Montbars el Piratay de Wenongo el Mohicano.
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Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “carátula”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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