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Translation couplets

Couplets, from Old French, diminutive of couple.

It consists of a combination of borrowing a translation unit from a source language and a target language explanation or a literal translation

e.g. "In Puebla, Mexico they serve chicken covered with mole(chocolate sauce)".

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