English translation of "mortiçamente iluminado" - "dimly illuminated.. with ghastly illumination"

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163 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Portuguese > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	mortiçamente iluminado
Context:	As luzes apagaram-se e, sobre o palco do cabaret, mortiçamente iluminado, apareceu uma...
Keywords:	...rapariga resplendescente, vestida com um elegantíssimo smoking preto.

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163 months ago

airmailrpl wrote:

dimly illuminated.. with ghastly illumination

My comment:

mortiçamente iluminado => dimly illuminated..with ghastly illumination

horrowshow: May 2012
www.robinruse.blogspot.com/2012_05_01_archive.html
31 May 2012 – ... of such degradation alone, there arises an insatiable longing to view others under the same ghastly illumination of debasement and despair.

My references:

mortiçamente
(mortiço + -mente)
adv.
De modo mortiço.

mortiço
adj.
1. Quase morto, moribundo.
2. Quase apagado.
3. Fraco, desmaiado.

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