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163 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

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163 months ago

   wrote:

high society salons

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163 months ago

airmailrpl   wrote:

mundane salons

My comment:

mundano
adj.
1. Próprio do mundo.
2. Profano.
3. Falto de moral, de comedimento.
4. Não virtuoso.
5. Dado aos prazeres do mundo.
s. m.
6. Pessoa que aprecia as visitas, a sociedade, a convivência.

My references:

Main Entry:
mundane  [muhn-deyn, muhn-deyn] Show IPA
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ordinary
Synonyms: banal, commonplace, day-to-day, earthly, everyday, humdrum*, lowly, normal, prosaic, routine, workaday, workday, worldly

mun·dane/ˌmənˈdān/
Adjective:
Lacking interest or excitement; dull.
Of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one.
Synonyms:
worldly - temporal - earthly - secular - terrestrial
Wikipedia - Dictionary.com - Answers.com - Merriam-Webster

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

163 months ago

   wrote:

Robert, it's a false friend.

163 months ago

airmailrpl   wrote:

fashionable salons or venues or circles

My comment:

just like the French, salon mondain...

missing text: grupo de dandies que [frequentavam] todos os salões mondanos.

It depends on time and place: salons as in literary salons of the 19th century....otherwise, circiles

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

163 months ago

   wrote:

"Fashionable salons" sounds like the kind of place one gets their hair and nails done, not to mention deadly radiation from tanning beds.

163 months ago

   wrote:

Tell that to the other people who gave you answers. Asking questions with no context (such as the century, for instance) and not even providing a full sentence and then saying: this is literary translation. Literary translation is best left to those who know the language.

163 months ago

   wrote:

Good thing, then, that it's usually left to me!

163 months ago

   wrote:

Those who know Portuguese fluently. Frankly, I dunno too many English speakers who know Portuguese well. I can count them on one hand....