Translation for "alzacuello" to english
Alzacuello
noun
Translation examples
noun
Llevaba sotana negra y alzacuello.
He wore a black cassock, and white bands beneath his chin.
Las tiras del alzacuello las llevaba retorcidas a un lado.
His parsonical bands were twisted to one side.
Me quité la casaca, la peluca y el alzacuello y me preparé para orar.
I took off my coat, wig and bands and composed myself to prayer.
Para los oficiales y los tripulantes de este barco, un clérigo sin alzacuello ni peluca no tendría más autoridad que un mendigo.
To the officers and people of this ship, a clergyman without his bands and wig would be of no more account than a beggar.
de joven abad de los tiempos de los pelucones empolvados, con solideo, alzacuello, sotana y sandalias;
as a youthful abbé at the time of powdered white wigs, with cap and bands, mantle and buckled shoes;
Empecé a vestirme apresuradamente, sin olvidar el alzacuello, aunque con aquel calor lo sentía en la garganta como una presión insoportable.
I began hurriedly to dress, not forgetting my bands, though my throat in the heat felt them as an unfortunate constriction.
Sentado indolentemente detrás de su mesa hacía de vez en cuando pequeñas señas de aprobación con las manos colocadas a ambos lados del alzacuello.
Sitting listless at his desk, the priest from time to time signified his approval with little fluttering movements of his fingers on each side of the clerical bands that fell across his chest.
(¡pero jamás vas a leer esto!, ¡la situación resulta cada vez más paradójica: es posible que llegue un momento en que censure lo que he escrito!). Me vestí con igual cuidado, con el alzacuello, la peluca, el sombrero.
(But you shall never read this! The situation becomes increasingly paradoxical-I may at some time censor what I have written!) I dressed with equal care, bands, wig, hat.
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