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Spanish
Etymology
From cara (“face”) or Old Spanish carátura, from Latin character.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈɾatula/
- Rhymes: -atula
- Syllabification: ca‧rá‧tu‧la
Noun
carátula f (plural carátulas)
- mask; disguise
2016 October 7, “En plena complicación judicial, Scioli visitó en secreto a Macri en Olivos”, in Clarin:Y, además, acusó a ex funcionarios sciolistas, como Walter Carbone, quien fue subsecretario administrativo de la Jefatura de Gabinete bonaerense, investigado tras una denuncia de la diputada de Cambiemos por el fiscal Alvaro Garganta bajo la carátula de “lavado de activos y distintas defraudaciones a la administración pública”.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- case; sleeve
1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:Decoraban el frente del cuchitril las policromas carátulas de los cuadernillos que narraban las aventuras de Montbars el Piratay de Wenongo el Mohicano.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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