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Spanish
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly from Arabic الضَّمَان (aḍ-ḍamān).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /adeˈman/
- Rhymes: -an
- Syllabification: a‧de‧mán
Noun
ademán m (plural ademanes)
- gesture (motion of the body)
- Synonym: gesto
- posture, position
- (in the plural) manners
- Synonym: modales
2022 May 26, Elsa Fernández-Santos, “El español Albert Serra deslumbra en Cannes con el paraíso crepuscular de su nueva película”, in El País:Es el viaje por una isla fantasma de un hombre de ademanes mafiosos y pensamientos erráticos y confusos.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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