Translation examples
The holder tries to make a resigned wing-gesture and is almost blown into Orin’s pinfeathers. ‘Almost down!
El holder trata de hacer un gesto de resignación con las alas y casi se come el plumaje de Orin. —¡Ya casi estamos!
The young women spent hours at Ariane’s place, littering the floors with the plumes of swan and egret, the plumules of the canary, the quill feathers of turtledoves, parakeet tufts, merlin tail feathers, robin’s down, the wisp of warblers, remiges of nightingales, barbules of bluejays, the feather-spats of the screech owl, the pinfeathers of the seagull, storks’ wings and lyrebirds’ tails, throat feathers of the scarlet bee-eater, panaches of the bird of paradise.
Las jóvenes pasaban las horas en casa de Ariane, sembrando el suelo de adornos de plumaje para la cabeza, plumas de cisne y de canario, penas de tórtola, moños de cotorra, plumón de petirrojo, bozo de curruca, remeras de ruiseñor, bárbulas de arrendajo azul y plumas pediales de mochuelo, plumas de gaviota, de chotacabras, de tántalo, de faralaes del ave lira, penachos de aves del paraíso y colas de abejaruco escarlata.
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