chambergas
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From chamberga (“long coat”), after the Chamberga or Royal Guard of Spain, whose popular name -given to them because of the coats they wore- was a corruption of the name of the 17th-century French general Schomberg.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]chambergas m or f (invariable)
- (derogatory) bad dressed person
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chamberga”, 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), “chambergo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chambergas”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN