sabañón
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of uncertain origin according to the RAE.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sabañón m (plural sabañones)
- (pathology) chilblain
- Synonym: friera
- 1979 [1847], Charlotte Brontë, chapter 7, in E. Vergara, transl., Jane Eyre, Círculo de Lectores, page 55:
- No usábamos guantes, y teníamos las manos y los pies llenos de sabañones.
- We didn't use gloves, and we had our hands and feet covered with chilblains.
Further reading
[edit]- “sabañón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014