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English
Noun
traineau (plural traineaus)
- (obsolete) A kind of decorated sleigh, sometimes resembling an animal.
French
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Noun
traineau m (plural traineaux)
- post-1990 spelling of traîneau
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Portuguese
Noun
traineau m (plural traineaus)
- Obsolete spelling of trenó.
- 1837, Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos Uteis, O panorama: jornal litterario e instructivo de Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimientos Uteis, v. 1 and 2, Na Typ. da Sociedade, page 172:
Coincidiram estes abalos com a epocha dos grandes frios, que chegaram a 20.° R. abaixo do gelo, não só em Odessa, aonde duraram mais de 20 dias, mas tambem em toda Crimea, na qual, por um caso bem raro, se viajava em traineau, como nas provincias septemtrionais daquelle vasto imperio.- These earthquakes coincided with times of great cold, which reached 20.° R. under the ice, not only in Odessa, where it lasted over twenty days, but also in all Crimea, where, in a rare event, one would travel by sled, as in the northern provinces of that vast empire.
1874, O Archivo Rural, volume 15, page 691:[…] , elle e os seus companheiros fizeram uma viagem em traineau sobre o monte de gelo Semi-Klar.- , he and his companions made a sled trip over the Semi-Klar ice mount.
- 1880, Júlio César Machado, A vida alegre: (apontamentos de um folhetinista), Mattos Moreira, page 248:
[…] ; mil torrentes, mil abysmos de um lado e outro, caminhos estreitos, que serpenteiam pelo monte acima e por onde apenas cabia a diligencia ou o traineau.- ; a thousand torrents, a thousand abysses in every side, narrow paths, which meander through the mount above and through which only the diligence or the sled fits.