tale
/ˈteɪl/ sustantivo B1En español: cuento, historia, conseja
- A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. · the Canterbury Tales
- A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
- The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.
- An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie. · Don't tell tales!
Plural tales
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Peter was said to be; and discharged servant girls told fearsome tales of her temper and stinginess, and her family of pert, quarrelsome children.
And I want you to understand right off that you are not to come home telling tales about him.
A false tale often betrays itself.
Every tale is not to be believed.
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