chousa
Galician
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Etymology
From Old Galician / Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin clausa (“enclosed”). Compare Portuguese chouso, chousura.
Noun
chousa f (plural chousas)
- enclosed woodland
- enclosed pastures or orchard
- 1362, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 172:
- en toda a chousa que Andre Deus de Ueyga tinna sarrada et marcada por marcos et chantada de vinna
- in all the enclosing that André de Deus de Veiga had closed and delimited by boundary stoned and planted with vines
- en toda a chousa que Andre Deus de Ueyga tinna sarrada et marcada por marcos et chantada de vinna
- 1362, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 172:
- (fishing) a fine mesh net
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References
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- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “chousa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chousa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN