Spin, weave, wash, iron, cook
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sabia fiar, tecer, lavar, engomar, e cosinhar tão bem ou melhor do que qualquer outra.
she could spin, weave, wash, starch, and cook as well as or better than any other.
Five plain verbs of women's labour, rattled off like a proof. The list is deliberately unglamorous — spinning, weaving, washing, starching, cooking — the daily economy of the senzala and the house, and Isaura masters all of it 'as well as or better than any other.' Her superiority is never idleness.
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