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sable carpet

Spanish translation: alfombra negra

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English term or phrase:sable carpet
Spanish translation:alfombra negra
Entered by: Víctor Zamorano

04:52 Apr 3, 2021
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: sable carpet
Hello,
Could you please help me translate the expression "sable carpet"?

It appears in the short story of Edgar Allan Poe entitled "The Masque of the Red Death."

Thank you very much.
José Pablo Corrales
Costa Rica
alfombra negra
Explanation:
Sable, "negro", como en español en heráldica. Aparte, hay varias traducciones, y en todas ellas se ve así.
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Víctor Zamorano
Spain
Local time: 13:11
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Summary of answers provided
5 +2alfombra negra
Víctor Zamorano
5alfombra bruna, alfombra sable
Daniel Delgado
3la lúgubre [oscura] alfombra
Chema Nieto Castañón


  

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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
alfombra negra


Explanation:
Sable, "negro", como en español en heráldica. Aparte, hay varias traducciones, y en todas ellas se ve así.


    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sable
    https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/La_m%C3%A1scara_de_la_muerte_roja
Víctor Zamorano
Spain
Local time: 13:11
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agree  Beatriz Ramírez de Haro: "la negra alfombra" (Cortázar).
5 hrs
  -> Gracias, Beatriz
agree  Laura Orbegozo
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  -> Gracias, Laura
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
alfombra bruna, alfombra sable


Explanation:
Son sinónimos de "color negro" segun la RAE, que permiten conservar la equivalencia con vocabulario antiguo.

sable

1. m. Heráld. Color heráldico que en pintura se representa con el negro, y en el grabado por medio de líneas verticales y horizontales que se entrecruzan. U. t. c. adj.

https://dle.rae.es/sable?m=form


bruno, na

1. adj. cult. De color negro o muy oscuro.

https://dle.rae.es/bruno?m=form

Daniel Delgado
Argentina
Local time: 08:11
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 12
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
the sable carpet
la lúgubre [oscura] alfombra


Explanation:
Las dos primeras citas del cuento de Poe ayudan a establecer el contexto; las dos últimas a ver su uso específico.

1.
to be enamored of the Night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with a perfect abandon. The sable divinity would not herself dwell with us always; but we could counterfeit her presence. At the first dawn of the morning we closed all the messy shutters of our old building; lighting a couple of tapers which, strongly perfumed, threw out only the ghastliest and feeblest of rays. By the aid of these we then busied our souls in dreams—reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of the true Darkness. 

2.
The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue. 

3.
(...) and the blackness of the sable drapery appals; and to him whose foot falls upon the sable carpet, there comes from the near clock of ebony a muffled peal more solemnly emphatic than...

4.
(...) and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterwards, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero.



Diría que en estos casos, aunque "negro" es una lectura válida, sable aludiría de manera relevante a "lúgubre", "oscuro". La alusión en 3. a "the blackness of the sable drapery" me parece particularmente interesante y reveladora; ... la negrura del oscuro cortinaje conturba; y para quien posa el pie sobre la lúgubre alfombra (...).

Sable
Of the color black
Dark, gloomy
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sable


Chema Nieto Castañón
Spain
Local time: 13:11
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 31
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