esquirla
Spanish
FWOTD – 8 January 2023
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /esˈkiɾla/ [esˈkiɾ.la]
- Rhymes: -iɾla
- Syllabification: es‧quir‧la
Noun
esquirla f (plural esquirlas)
- (piece of) shrapnel
- 1921, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Las plumas del caburé:
- los proyectiles levantaban esquirlas de su coraza
- the projectiles were bringing up shrapnel from his cuirass
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- fragment; shard
- esquirlas de oro
- shards of gold
- (figuratively) fragment; glimmer; chink
- 1994, Jorge Juan Eiroa, La prehistoria I:
- Después, las esquirlas de hueso o cuerno eran sometidas a un proceso de regularización de la superficie, mediante un raspador
- Afterwards, the bone or horn fragments were subjected to a surface regularization process, using a scraper.
- 1914, José Ortega y Gasset, Arroyos y oropéndolas:
- La oropéndola da un denso grito de su garganta, tan musical que parece una esquirla arrancada al canto del ruiseñor […]
- The oriole lets out a dense cry from its throat, so musical that it sounds like a fragment of a nightingale's cry […]
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Further reading
- “esquirla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014