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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French gamelle.
Noun
gamella f (plural gamelle)
- mess tin
- Synonym: gavetta
1947, Primo Levi, “Sul fondo”, in Se questo è un uomo [If This Is a Man], Torino: Einaudi, published 1987, →ISBN, page 31:Quanto ai numeri grossi, essi comportano una nota di essenziale comicità, come avviene per i termini «matricola» o «coscritto» nella vita normale: il grosso numero tipico è un individuo panciuto, docile e scemo, a cui puoi far credere che all'infermeria distribuiscono scarpe di cuoio per individui dai piedi delicati, e convincerlo a corrervi e a lasciarti la sua gamella di zuppa «in custodia»; […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- billy, billycan
Spanish
Noun
gamella f (plural gamellas)
- trough
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