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knotted

French translation: nouée

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English term or phrase:knotted
French translation:nouée
Entered by: Jacques Desnoyers

23:02 Jan 11, 2006
English to French translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Physics / perspective
English term or phrase: knotted
(À propos du plafond de LA CÈNE)
...the design still shows the care with which Leonardo tried to achieve an effect that was both geometric in knotted symmetry and yet naturalistic in asymmetrical variety and detail.
Odette Grille (X)
Canada
Local time: 02:47
nouée
Explanation:
[...] elle tient en grande partie à cette structure fortement nouée, et symétrique; [...]

Il s'agit ici de poésie, mais je crois qu'on peut facilement transposer l'expression.
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Jacques Desnoyers
Local time: 02:47
Grading comment
C'est si simple. Je commençais à désespérer.
Merci beaucoup
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4nouée
Jacques Desnoyers


  

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nouée


Explanation:
[...] elle tient en grande partie à cette structure fortement nouée, et symétrique; [...]

Il s'agit ici de poésie, mais je crois qu'on peut facilement transposer l'expression.


    Reference: http://www.anthologie.free.fr/traite/traite03.htm
Jacques Desnoyers
Local time: 02:47
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
C'est si simple. Je commençais à désespérer.
Merci beaucoup
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