French term
panama
"Un equipage venait de me depasser, un equipage qui meritait de retenir mon attention.
Il etait compose d'une charrette a bras attelee a un bourricot etique et orne, bien qu'il fut neuf heures du soir, d'un gigantesque panama comme la Societe Protectrice des Animaux en fait tresser pour le plus grand malheur des chevaux qu'elle pretend proteger."
Ce 'panama' n'est-il pas un chapeau, non?
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rkillings
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Yasutomo Kanazawa
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Mar 15, 2009 08:39: writeaway changed "Field (specific)" from "Poetry & Literature" to "Textiles / Clothing / Fashion"
Mar 15, 2009 10:43: Helen Shiner changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
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Proposed translations
donkey sombrero
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Note added at 17 hrs (2009-03-15 21:53:46 GMT)
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Note added at 23 hrs (2009-03-16 04:30:15 GMT) Post-grading
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In any case, panama (the hat) and panama hat palm (the plant) are lowercase names in English, like swede (yellow turnip).
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Rachel Fell
: sombrero might be a more likely term in English - panama hats are of a certain style that is less likely to be used on a donkey
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All the more reason not to say 'panama' if all that is meant is paja toquilla.
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Japan
Scientia est potentia
Native in: Japanese 
Works in: English to Japanese, German to Japanese, Italian to Japanese, and 3 more.
panama hat
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| Well, just i wonder a donkey puts a hat on himself!(not being in the circus) |
| Arigato, Yasutomo Kanazawa.... |
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Vicky James
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Thank you Vicky
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Assimina Vavoula
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Thank you Assimina
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Gayle Wallimann
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Thank you Gayle, and thanks for correcting my posting.
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myrden
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Thank you myrden
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writeaway
: also in basic Fr-En dictionaries
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Thank you writeaway
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Sheila Wilson
: shown on many a postcard from Benidorm etc
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Thank you Sheila
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Helen Shiner
: just as Sheila says
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Thank you Helen
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margaret caulfield
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thank you Margaret
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Valerie SYKES
: Just to point out that the 'P' is a capital letter - Panama hat.
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thanks Valerie, for pointing it out
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Juan Jacob
: Tout à fait. Chapeau très cher, très léger, que l'on peut enrouler, qui n'est pas fabriqué au Panama, si je ne me trompe. // http://ecuaclu.club.fr/index.html Confirmé, fabriqués en Équateur !
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thank you Juan
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ACOZ (X)
: Have you never seen photos of donkeys protected from the sun by a hat? Nothing strange about it.
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thank you ACOZ
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