Mar 3, 2015 17:52
9 yrs ago
English term
France
17 years in legal/financial translation
Native in: French 
Works in: English to French, German to French
magnolia room
English to French
Art/Literary
Military / Defense
Bonjour à tous,
Ce terme me laisse perplexe. Rien trouvé malgré mes recherches. J'avais pensé à "dortoir féminin", "chambrée", "box", mais sans certitude. L'auteur est une femme.
"I was a serving soldier in the British Army and spent a fair bit of time living in tents in deserts and cold muddy fields, but back on barracks, much of my 12 years service was spent in magnolia rooms. Sometimes I would have a room to myself but quite often I would share a magnolia room with another female soldier".
Merci d'avance
Laurence Bourel
Ce terme me laisse perplexe. Rien trouvé malgré mes recherches. J'avais pensé à "dortoir féminin", "chambrée", "box", mais sans certitude. L'auteur est une femme.
"I was a serving soldier in the British Army and spent a fair bit of time living in tents in deserts and cold muddy fields, but back on barracks, much of my 12 years service was spent in magnolia rooms. Sometimes I would have a room to myself but quite often I would share a magnolia room with another female soldier".
Merci d'avance
Laurence Bourel
Proposed translations
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Mar 3, 2015 19:28: Emanuela Galdelli changed "Term asked" from "\"magnolia room\"" to "magnolia room"
Proposed translations
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English term (edited):
"magnolia room"
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institutional colour
I can't open http://digimag.milspouse.com/publication/index.php?p=56&i=16... but it suggests "painfully drab" accommodation in the British Army.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2015-03-03 20:18:03 GMT)
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What it says is "The Magnolia Factor: Getting to know my wonderful, colourful, very different new ... quarter in the U.K. has its interior decorated with this shamefully drab colour. ... In the British Army and its regimental system, a greater proportion of military ..."
And a random site "definitely a sense of design with strict avoidance of magnolia, creams, beiges and institutional colours in general."
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Note added at 2 hrs (2015-03-03 20:24:28 GMT)
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"The Vale Berkley Guesthouse, run by Harri and Claire Cheber, where functional magnolia rooms are the order of the day."
Anyway, the point is that IMHO it can only be translated literally "une chambre/pièce magnolia" - it's presumably a bedroom.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2015-03-03 20:18:03 GMT)
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What it says is "The Magnolia Factor: Getting to know my wonderful, colourful, very different new ... quarter in the U.K. has its interior decorated with this shamefully drab colour. ... In the British Army and its regimental system, a greater proportion of military ..."
And a random site "definitely a sense of design with strict avoidance of magnolia, creams, beiges and institutional colours in general."
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Note added at 2 hrs (2015-03-03 20:24:28 GMT)
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"The Vale Berkley Guesthouse, run by Harri and Claire Cheber, where functional magnolia rooms are the order of the day."
Anyway, the point is that IMHO it can only be translated literally "une chambre/pièce magnolia" - it's presumably a bedroom.
Peer comment(s):
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Daryo
: from what I could find "magnolia" is not a particularly drab colour - more a plain all purpose colour // strangely enough a lot of banqueting rooms are advertised as "magnolia room"
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