café com leite
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “coffee with milk”.
Noun
[edit]café com leite m (plural cafés com leite)
- greenhorn (inexperienced person)
- (Brazil, politics, historical) the oligarchic domination of Brazilian politics by the coffee industry (São Paulo) and dairy industry (Minas Gerais) during the First Brazilian Republic (1889–1930)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see café, com, leite.
Further reading
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café com leite on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt- política do café com leite on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
