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4 +5 | tercio de frutas (fruit quota) |
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tercio de frutas (fruit quota) Explanation: I would leave it in Spanish with a few words of explanation. "For the wine trade, an important fact was that from as early as 1519, the Merchant Venturers had a right to dictate what should form a proportion of the cargo of any boat sailing for the Americas. This was called the tercio de frutas, and included not just wine, but also vine plants." http://books.google.com/books?id=4cSIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT169&lpg=P... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 17 hrs (2019-11-05 13:39:32 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Frutos and frutas both mean fruit, but the dictionary also gives "fruto del país" as a Latin American term meaning "agricultural produce". It's possible that this comes from colonial Spain. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 17 hrs (2019-11-05 13:39:50 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://dictionary.reverso.net/spanish-english/fruto |
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