emquanto

Portuguese

Conjunction

emquanto

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of enquanto.
   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Festa [Celebration]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives]‎^[1], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 120:

     Emquanto andara fazendo espalhafato, a cabeça cheia de aguardente, desprezara as esfoladuras dos pés.

     While he’d been making a racket, his head full of liquor, he had ignored the scrapes on his foot.

See also

• por emquanto