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amante del tirar di spada

French translation: toujours prompt à dégainer son/l'épée

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Italian term or phrase:amante del tirar di spada
French translation:toujours prompt à dégainer son/l'épée
Entered by: Virginie Ebongué

12:22 Jun 8, 2008
Italian to French translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Italian term or phrase: amante del tirar di spada
Prototipo dell’artista romantico, anticonformista, insieme realista e visionario, Salvator Rosa amava considerarsi un filosofo, un poeta e gran pittore di figure. Era un po’ fuorilegge, amante del tirar di spada e uomo di teatro.

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Merci beaucoup
Virginie Ebongué
Italy
Local time: 14:35
toujours prêt à dégainer son épée pour les motifs les plus divers
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Agnès Levillayer
Italy
Local time: 14:35
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Merci Agnès
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4 +4toujours prêt à dégainer son épée pour les motifs les plus divers
Agnès Levillayer
3Querelleur
Gad Kohenov


  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Querelleur


Explanation:
faire de l'escrime est trop facile.

querelleur
litigioso, rissoso {quarrelsome}
rissoso {brawling}


Gad Kohenov
Israel
Local time: 15:35
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in HebrewHebrew
PRO pts in category: 7
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
toujours prêt à dégainer son épée pour les motifs les plus divers


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Agnès Levillayer
Italy
Local time: 14:35
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Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 377
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Merci Agnès

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maverick82 (X): oui, je n'avais pas compris l'italien :-D
9 mins
agree  Mary Carroll Richer LaFlèche
6 hrs
agree  cenek tomas: Pourquoi ne pas s' arrêter à"épée"?
10 hrs
  -> tout à fait possible, en effet, mais à mon avis l'italien laisse imaginer un personnage un peu rebelle et impulsif qui se bat pour un oui et pour un non (mais aussi, pourquoi pas, pour des motifs plus nobles).
agree  Marie Christine Cramay: D'accord avec Cenek Tomas.
18 hrs
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