emquanto
Portuguese
Conjunction
emquanto
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of enquanto.
- 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Festa [Celebration]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 120:
- Emquanto andara fazendo espalhafato, a cabeça cheia de aguardente, desprezara as esfoladuras dos pés.
- While he’d been making a racket, his head full of liquor, he had ignored the scrapes on his foot.