Translation for "pinking" to spanish
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She envied their tailoress her half-moon pinking tool.
Tuvo envidia de la modista por su utensilio en forma de media luna para picar la tela.
Fike’s pink tongue tip makes a roguish tour of his lips.
La sonrosada punta de la lengua de Fike describe un pícaro giro sobre sus labios.
When I see the whites of his eyes turn glassy pink, I feel mine stinging, too.
Sus ojos se tiñen de un rojizo resplandeciente e, inmediatamente, a mí me empiezan a picar los míos.
The sun was not yet hot, the leaves of razor-grass still looked frosted with the dew, and the two or three dusty hibiscus shrubs in the village carried fresh pink flowers that were to quail before midday.
El sol no había empezado a picar; las hojas de las hierbas altas aún estaban escarchadas de rocío y los dos o tres hibiscos polvorientos de la aldea tenían flores rosas, frescas, que se encogerían antes de mediodía.
Some time after that a broad bar of pink and silver flashed under Keven’s fly. That bar was a foot deep. Another cast again raised this giant of a steelhead. He rose boldly, he showed clearly, but he missed the fly and turned to leave a hole in the water.
Unos instantes después, un enorme ejemplar, con el lomo rosado y los costados color de plata, saltó junto al cebo, pero se hundió de nuevo en el agua sin decidirse a picar.
Behind the counter, the white-smocked butchers brandish their cleavers with the trapezoidal blade, their great knives for slicing and those for flaying, saws for severing bones, pounders with which they press the snaky pink curls into the funnel of the grinding machine.
Detrás del mostrador, los carniceros de blanco blanden las hachas trapezoidales, las cuchillas de rebanar y las de desollar, las sierras para cortar los huesos, la maza con la que aprietan los serpeantes rizos rosados en el embudo de la máquina de picar.
But by late afternoon we were exhausted and the singing died away. Then a quick meal, bread and cheese, a cup of wine so diluted it was barely pink, and, if we were lucky, a brief glimpse of the outside world, before darkness fell. And so it went on.
Pero, apenas mediada la tarde, acabábamos agotadas, y se desvanecían los cantos. Llegaba la hora entonces de picar algo, pan y queso, una copa de aloque; y, si había suerte, vislumbrábamos un retazo del mundo afuera, antes de que se hiciera de noche.
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