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Meaning of pacotilla



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John Rene Plaut

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PACOTILLA comes from PACO, the amount of fabric that the crew could formerly upload to the ship. This was work clothes and generally of poor quality. The indigenous people of the Azuay region in Bullcay and Bhulzún, both in the canton of Gualaceo, have been producing for centuries the cloths of Gualaceo or Macana de Gualaceo. These are manufactured in 3 versions: the macana campo blanco, peruvian imitation, the finest, the macana campo oscuro and a third, made by the poorest indigenous, the pacotilla. For these reasons the term is synonymous with poor quality. Its use resulted in calling something bad or useless or someone who does things to the lot, carelessly: the masters of pacotilla leave everything halfway or badly finished.

  



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Jonathan Torne

Do it all inefficiently, badly and without impetus

  

Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez Image
Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

You want to say that it lacks completely of value and significance. That it lacks quality. Merchandise carrying a sailor without paying for transport. Devalued devalued, insignificant, discredited.

  

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Anónimo

Diminutive of pacota. See: gang.

  

Alfredo Edgardo Alvarez Ahumada Image
Alfredo Edgardo Alvarez Ahumada

CHEESY: OF LITTLE VALUE.NO IMPORTANCE.EXEMPT TRANSPORT VALUE MERCHANDISE

  










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