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mocambo

mocambo noun: a community made up of former slaves in colonial Brazil.

Noun

mocambo (plural mocambos)

  1. (historical) A community made up of former slaves in colonial Brazil.
    • The captured animals have been taken, once night fell, to pens behind the Mocambo.1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 517
    • The mocambo represented an expression of social protest in a slave society.1996, Stuart B Schwartz, Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery, page 109

Forms of mocambo

pluralmocambos

Origin of mocambo

From Portuguese mocambo, from Kimbundu [Term?].

Questions about mocambo

What does mocambo mean?
Mocambo means a community made up of former slaves in colonial Brazil.
What part of speech is mocambo?
Mocambo is a noun.
What is the plural of mocambo?
The plural of mocambo is mocambos.

Words near mocambo in the dictionary

  1. moc toe
  2. MoCA
  3. mocadon
  4. mocadons
  5. Mocambique
  6. mocambo
  7. mocambos
  8. mocap
  9. mocapped
  10. mocapper
  11. mocappers

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