Translation for "fancy-work" to spanish
Fancy-work
noun
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noun
That would be the Women’s Institute display of bottled pickles, embalmed fruit, doilies, home-cooking, and ‘fancy-work’.
Allí estaba la exposición de encurtidos y conservas del Instituto de la Mujer, las compotas de fruta, los tapetes bordados, las muestras de cocina casera y otras labores del hogar.
I went there—I went there to see if—if any of the officers would buy fancy work from me to send home to their wives.
–Fui allí… fui allí para ver si… si alguno de los oficiales quería comprar bordados de fantasía hechos por mí, para enviar a sus esposas.
This scheme, however, was doomed to failure, because Mrs Matthews had elected to curtail her afternoon rest, and was already seated on the sofa in the drawing-room, with a small piece of fancy-work in her hands, and a cigarette burning in an ash-tray beside her.
Sin embargo, este plan estaba condenado al fracaso, porque la señora Matthews había decidido acortar su descanso vespertino, de modo que ya estaba sentada en el sofá del salón con un pequeño bordado entre las manos y un cigarrillo consumiéndose en un cenicero a su lado.
I have known young ladies, much better educated, and with an outward world diversified by instructive lectures, to say nothing of literature and highly-developed fancy-work, who have spun a cocoon of visionary joys and sorrows for themselves, just as Penny did.
He conocido señoritas, mucho mejor educadas y con un conocimiento más amplio del mundo gracias a la lectura instruida, por no hablar de literatura y bordados elaborados, que han tejido para sí, igual que Penny, un capullo de alegrías y penas imaginarias.
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