Her small bare foot
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emquanto o pésinho nu e delicado, abandonando o tamanquinho de marroquim,
while her little bare and delicate foot, forsaking the small morocco-leather clog,
The eye travels down to the foot, and the detail is precise and sensuous in the manner of the age: the 'pésinho nu,' the small bare foot, slipped free of its little clog of 'marroquim,' soft morocco leather — a costly hide, a mark of the fine things she still wore. Guimarães lingers, half in tenderness, half in the frank appraisal of beauty the era permitted itself.
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