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Meaning of pasar la noche en vela



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pasar la noche en vela
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It means suffering from insomnia, not being able to sleep. In Colombia it is also used in the same sense "spend the night in white".

  



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It is a voiceover that is used when not sleeping all night. It has a medieval origin, since one of the rites prior to being knighted by the king was to spend the previous night awake watching or guarding his weapons. See "spend the night in white".

  










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