calaña

f.

1 class, nature, type, stamp.

2 sample, pattern.

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calaña

► nombre femenino

1 (muestra, patrón) sample, pattern

2 figurado (calidad, naturaleza) nature, disposition

3 peyorativo kind, type, sort

■ esos hombres son de la misma calaña those men are all the same type

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SF sort

gente de esa calaña — people of that ilk o sort

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femenino

los de tu calaña ... — your sort o kind ... (colloq)

un tipo de mala calaña — a bad sort o lot (colloq)

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= stamp, stripe.

Ex. The new heir apparent is probably a man of a very different stamp.

Ex. The field of computational linguistics is exciting insomuch as it permits linguists of different stripes to model language behaviour.

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femenino

los de tu calaña ... — your sort o kind ... (colloq)

un tipo de mala calaña — a bad sort o lot (colloq)

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= stamp, stripe.

Ex: The new heir apparent is probably a man of a very different stamp.

Ex: The field of computational linguistics is exciting insomuch as it permits linguists of different stripes to model language behaviour.

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calaña

feminine

si se junta con gente de esa calaña if he mixes with people of that type o sort

yo no me trato con los de tu calaña I don't mix with your sort o kind (colloq)

un tipo de mala calaña a bad sort o lot (colloq)

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calaña sustantivo femenino pey (estofa) kind, sort: con gente de esa calaña es mejor no tratarse, it's better to have nothing to do with people of that sort

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calaña nf

Pey

de esa calaña of that ilk;

no me junto con los de su calaña I don't mix with people of his sort;

gente de la peor calaña people of the worst sort, the worst sort of people

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calaña

f desp

sort, type;

de mala calaña gente nasty;

son de la misma calaña they’re as bad as each other

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calaña nf

: ilk, kind, sort

una persona de mala calaña: a bad sort