mocambo
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese mocambo, from Kimbundu [Term?].
Noun
[edit]mocambo (plural mocambos)
- (now historical) A community made up of former slaves in colonial Brazil.
- 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 517:
- The captured animals have been taken, once night fell, to pens behind the Mocambo.
- 1996, Stuart B Schwartz, Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery, page 109:
- The mocambo represented an expression of social protest in a slave society.
- 2021, Ronald H Chilcote, Protest and Resistance in Angola and Brazil: Comparative Studies, page 251:
- Such meetings were held in Macaco, the largest mocambo, which housed five thousand blacks and the supreme chieftain.
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: mo‧cam‧bo
Noun
[edit]mocambo m (plural mocambos)
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