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noun, masculine

marbete

/maɾˈbete/

noun, masculine/maɾˈbete/plural: marbetes

tag; label

turistas recién llegados, en cuyas valijas habían pegado sus marbetes azules, blancos o rosados todas las compañías de vapores o de ferrocarrilesnewly-arrived tourists, who had their suitcases stuck with blue, white and pink labels of all the steamboat and railway companies

Inherited from Old Spanish [Term?], from Andalusian Arabic مرباط (marbáṭ, “bag on the belt”), from Arabic مِرْبَط (mirbaṭ, “rope, hawser”).