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Old June 10, 2010, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by poli View Post
I when I was a kid I always thought svelte was a New -York word borrowed from Yiddish or German or Polish. I felt the same way about tumult, but it turns out that it too is proper English even though it sounds
Eastern European to me.

A propósito acabé de verificar en el diccionario que existe una palabra esbelto en español que significa svelte.

Correcto.

No he/había visto la palabra esa antes..., no me parece, y quería saber si la conocían y hacían uso de ella en inglés.

Me he quedado igual.

De todas maneras gracias.
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