Christmas and New Year

[Rusty]

American English:

serie (de luces) = Christmas lights / string lights / string of lights
trineo = sled / sleigh
envoltura de regalo = gift wrap / wrapping paper
cascabeles = jingle bells / sleigh bells

los Reyes Magos = the Wise Men / the (three) Wise Men (of/from the East) / the (Three) Kings (from the Orient) / the Magi :
their number is uncertain, but set at three because three gifts were mentioned by Matthew :
there are various names given to them, but Caspar (Gaspar, Jaspar), Melchior, and Balthasar are the most popular; these have been used since the 8th century (derived from an Alexandrian text dated two centuries earlier)

Please provide a picture of escarcha. Is it the same as guirnalda? Tinsel can mean a garland (a chain made out of bright, shiny plastic strands) or the thin shiny plastic strands that hang over the branches of a Christmas tree to make it look like it has icicles hanging from the branches (this kind of tinsel is also called icicles). Could cinta brillante be used for tinsel / guirnalda?

(corona has an inadvertent / behind it)

[Jubilee]

Many thanks for this thread

[irmamar]

Yes, it's interesting.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Thank you, Rusty. Additions and corrections are made.

"Escarcha" as tinsel can be a Mexican word only.
I find "cinta brillante" too general, but maybe it's used somewhere else to talk about a string of glittering strips or threads.

"Guirnalda" could be the more generalized word.


"Cinta brillante" would suggest to me a flat and smooth ribbon.

[irmamar]

Escrito originalmente por AngelicaDeAlquezar

Thank you, Rusty. Additions and corrections are made.

"Escarcha" as tinsel can be a Mexican word only.
I find "cinta brillante" too general, but maybe it's used somewhere else to talk about a string of glittering strips or threads.

"Guirnalda" could be the more generalized word.


"Cinta brillante" would suggest to me a flat and smooth ribbon.

We call this "espumillón".

[laepelba]

Garland is the stuff that is attached in a long rope/string:
http://www.faqs.org/photo-dict/photo...as_garland.jpg

Tinsel is the stuff that falls off in individual pieces.......
http://images.ecommetrix.com/commerc...2009%20091.JPG

(Don't know how to make the thumbnail images......)

[chileno]

Escrito originalmente por laepelba

Garland is the stuff that is attached in a long rope/string:
http://www.faqs.org/photo-dict/photo...as_garland.jpg

Tinsel is the stuff that falls off in individual pieces.......
http://images.ecommetrix.com/commerc...2009%20091.JPG

(Don't know how to make the thumbnail images......)

The first one is a guirnalda and the second is escarcha.

árbol de pascua = christmas tree

pan de pascua =mix of fruit cake and panettone

... in Chile.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Changes proposed by Lou Ann and Hernán are made.


I've heard "pan de pascua" (or "pan de frutas") as "fruitcake"... is it a Mexicanism or is it normally called so in English-speaking countries?

[chileno]

Escrito originalmente por AngelicaDeAlquezar

Changes proposed by Lou Ann and Hernán are made.


I've heard "pan de pascua" (or "pan de frutas") as "fruitcake"... is it a Mexicanism or is it normally called so in English-speaking countries?

Yes... I changed it.

La "clorita" se está poniendo pesada...

[CrOtALiTo]

Escrito originalmente por AngelicaDeAlquezar

Changes proposed by Lou Ann and Hernán are made.


I've heard "pan de pascua" (or "pan de frutas") as "fruitcake"... is it a Mexicanism or is it normally called so in English-speaking countries?

Where you have gotten the ( Pan de pascua ). I mean in that store sells it, I have never heard about that bread in my life, I'd like give it a little bite.