licção

Portuguese

Noun

licção f (plural licções)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of lição.
    • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Sinha Victoria [Victoria]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 65:
      Se vendesse as gallinhas e a marrã? Infelizmente a excommungada raposa tinha comido a pedrez, a mais gorda. Precisava dar uma licção á raposa. Ia armar o mundeo junto do poleiro e quebrar o espinhaço daquella semvergonha.
      What if she sold the chickens and the young sow? Unfortunately the damned fox had eaten the spotted hen, the plumpest one. She had to teach the fox a lesson. She was going to set up a trap by the perch and break that rascal's back.
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