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Glossary entry

Inglese term or phrase:

gentility on-the-make

Italiano translation:

la sua ascesa verso una (sorta di) condizione signorile

Added to glossary by Maria Elisa Albanese
Sep 30, 2010 18:16
13 yrs ago
Inglese term

gentility on-the-make

Da Inglese a Italiano Altro Poesia e Prosa
he could hardly filch her away from the marchese's favourite painter and still remain in his employ, and his kind of gentility-on-the-make would assort ill with a market girl, a painter's acknowledged mistress and the mother of his illegitimate child.
Proposed translations (Italiano)
3 la sua ascesa verso una (sorta di) condizione signorile
2 +1 signorilità nascente
2 condizione signorile in costruzione

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la sua ascesa verso una (sorta di) condizione signorile

"signorilità" può intendersi anche come classe e raffinatezza. Qui mi sembra che lui stia salendo di rango sociale più che diventare più "gentiluomo"

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Note added at 6 days (2010-10-07 07:15:05 GMT) Post-grading
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Grazie a te!
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+1
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signorilità nascente

If I understand it right
Peer comment(s):
agree Sara Bollati
6 ore
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condizione signorile in costruzione

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