tiracollo
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[edit]Noun
[edit]tiracollo m (plural tiracollos)
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of tiracolo.
- 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.