Meanings (ES + gloss)
martillo
A flat-faced fulling hammer.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
adular • falagar (disused) • halagar • requebrar
To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour.
1855, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 7, p. 242, Some he complimented for…
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
adular • franelear • incensar • lisonjear
To enhance or gratify someone's vanity by praising them.
retocar
To portray someone to advantage.
Her portrait flatters her.
Here is her picture: let me see; I think, If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as lovely as is this of hers: And yet the painter flatter’d her a little […]
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