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calça

Pronunciation: [ˈkal.sə]

“calça” is a Catalan word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. sock
  2. hose
  3. pantaloons; knickers
  4. panties
  5. the outer bark of a cork oak that is put back on the tree after the cork has been harvested so as to help the tree to survive and produce more cork

In Catalan

  1. mitja
  2. pantaló
  3. Roba interior femenina sobre la cintura i l’entrecuix.

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin calcea, from Latin calceus (“shoe”). Over time the meaning extended upward to include all of the body from the waist down, then contracted to cover only the area just below the waist.

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