cabello
cabello
masculine noun
1hair
- cabello de ángel (cooking) -> = preserve made of strands of pumpkin in syrup
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cabello [cah-bayl’-lyo]
noun
1Hair of the head. (m)
- Cabello de Venus -> (Bot.) maidenhair
- Estar pendiente de un cabello -> to hang by a thread
- Estar en cabello -> to have one’s hair down
noun, plural
2Large sinews in mutton.
3Fibres of plants; the silk of corn.
- Cabellos de ángel -> conserve of fruit cut into small threads
- Estar colgado de los cabellos, to be in anxious expectation of the issue of a critical affair. Tomar la ocasióon por los cabellos -> to take time by the forelock, (Met.) O profit by the occasion
- Traer alguna cosa por los cabellos -> (Met.) to appropriate a phrase, an authority, or a quotation, to a thing which has no relation with it
- Arrancarse los cabellos -> to pull or tear one’s hair
- Arrastrar a uno por los cabellos -> to drag one away by the hair
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