tobo

English translation: bucket

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Spanish term or phrase:tobo
English translation:bucket
Entered by: Wendy Gosselin

22:23 Oct 30, 2017
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Printing & Publishing
Spanish term or phrase: tobo
This is from a caption for a work by a Venezuelan artist:

Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Untitled, from the Cubrecamas Villa-Nueva [Villa-Nueva Bedspreads] series
2002
Loneta pintada con café y zumo de limón, con impresiones realizadas con plancha y base de tobo, y cosida
213 x 167 cm

Sewn fabric painted with coffee and lemon juice, with block prints...

Thanks!
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 10:45
bucket
Explanation:
tobo in Venezuela is a bucket
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Elda Munguia
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thanks
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Elda Munguia


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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
bucket


Explanation:
tobo in Venezuela is a bucket

Elda Munguia
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Robert Carter: Why not? Perhaps it's used simply to make some kind of circular print.
5 hrs

agree  Charles Davis: Yes, it is, and the word seems to have no other meaning in Venezuela or anywhere else. As Robert says, you can just stand the bucket in paint or something and then just use it to leave an impression of the base.
5 hrs

agree  Christian [email protected]: Robert and Charles are correct.
23 hrs
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