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frevo

frevo noun: any of a wide range of music and dance styles originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, and traditionally associated with Brazilian carnival.

Noun

frevo (uncountable)

  1. Any of a wide range of music and dance styles originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, and traditionally associated with Brazilian carnival.
    • Musicians from Recife, Olinda and rural Pernambuco have concocted rock laced with funk; reggae; the local beats of maracatú and frevo; old rural songs; and the beats, burbles and scratches of electronica.2008 February 24, Jon Pareles, “Recalling Romance, Brazilian Rock Beats and an Age-Old Harp”, in New York Times

Origin of frevo

From Portuguese, said to come from ferver (“to boil”).

Questions about frevo

What does frevo mean?
Frevo means any of a wide range of music and dance styles originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, and traditionally associated with Brazilian carnival.
What part of speech is frevo?
Frevo is a noun.

Words near frevo in the dictionary

  1. Freudians
  2. Freudism
  3. Freudist
  4. Freudists
  5. Freund's adjuvant
  6. frevo
  7. Frew
  8. Frewen
  9. Frewer
  10. Frewers
  11. Frews

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