May 2, 2012 18:20
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English term
Works in: English to Romanian, French to Romanian
beach-combed
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English to Romanian
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I was born in a large Welsh town at the beginning of the Great War – an ugly, lovely town, or so it was and is to me: crawling, sprawling by a long and splendid curving shore where truant boys and Sandfield boys and old men from nowhere, beach-combed, idled and paddled, watched the dock bound ships or the ships steaming away into wonder and India, magic and China...
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(Romanian)
| 4 | cotrăboiau/scotoceau plaja |
Daniel Grigoras
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Daniel Grigoras
Romania
Romania
Native in Romanian
Romania
Per aspera ad astra
Native in: Romanian (Variant: Romania)
Works in: Romanian to English, English to Romanian, English, and 1 more.
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cotrăboiau/scotoceau plaja
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Beachomber
M-W:2. a person who searches along a shore (as for salable refuse or for seashells) http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beachcomber
TFD: 1. One who scavenges along beaches or in wharf areas. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/beachcomber
"Many modern beachcombers follow the "drift lines" or "tide lines" on the beach and are interested in the (mostly natural) objects that the sea casts up. For these people, "beachcombing" is the recreational activity of looking for and finding various curiosities that have washed in with the tide: seashells of every kind, fossils, pottery shards, historical artifacts, sea beans (drift seeds), sea glass (beach glass) and driftwood." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beachcombing
Beachomber
M-W:2. a person who searches along a shore (as for salable refuse or for seashells) http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beachcomber
TFD: 1. One who scavenges along beaches or in wharf areas. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/beachcomber
"Many modern beachcombers follow the "drift lines" or "tide lines" on the beach and are interested in the (mostly natural) objects that the sea casts up. For these people, "beachcombing" is the recreational activity of looking for and finding various curiosities that have washed in with the tide: seashells of every kind, fossils, pottery shards, historical artifacts, sea beans (drift seeds), sea glass (beach glass) and driftwood." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beachcombing
Example sentence:
unde băieții care chiuleau și băieții din cartierul Swansea și bărbați în vârstă de nicăieri, cotrobăiau plaja, trândăveau și se bălăceau, se uitau la vapoarele andocate sau...
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