maracatu
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese maracatu.
Noun
[edit]maracatu (uncountable)
- A Brazilian performance genre involving parades and music.
- 2008 January 15, Jon Pareles, “To See (and Hear) the World in Five Hours: Unique Sounds Ripe for Import”, in New York Times[1]:
- Nation Beat, from exotic Brooklyn, uses the maracatu beat and rabeca fiddle of northeastern Brazil, and it has a Brazilian singer, Liliana Araújo.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]maracatu m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “maracatu”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “maracatu”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- “maracatu”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
maracatu on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]maracatu m (uncountable)
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