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Meaning of oro en paño by furoya




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oro en paño
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Expression to qualify something as "very valuable, very important or dear", which is saved or cared for like gold pieces, protected between cloths. There are suspicions about the origin, which may also have been a deformation of the phrase "gold in loaves". See also as gold on cloth .

  

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