English translation of "rito dell'abbattimento della lastra di marmo" - "the rituql dismantling of the marble slab"

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158 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Italian > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	rito dell'abbattimento della lastra di marmo
Context:	In quell'angolo della cristianità, sintesi di duemila anni di storia, su quelle pietre che
Keywords:	...avevano calpestato papi, imperatori, regnanti e milioni de fedeli da ogni punto della terra, l'antico alpinista (Pio XI) milanese si soffermò a compiere il rito dell'abbattimento della lastra di marmo, attraverso la quale il suo corteo salmodiante lo accompagnò, in tutta la sua gloria, dentro la basilica.

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158 months ago

wrote:

removal of the marble slab

My comment:

In the IATE -former Eurodic- I could find under "abbattimento" among many other possibilities: "removal of rocks", please vid.:

http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQuery.do

Hope it helps.

158 months ago

giulianoscarpa wrote:

the ritual lowering of the marble slab

158 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote:

the rituql dismantling of the marble slab

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158 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote:

Sorry - obviously that should be 'ritual'...I'm working between British and French keyboard :-/

158 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote: