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Tropicália

Tropicália proper noun: a Brazilian art movement that arose in the late 1960s, characterized by the amalgamation of Brazilian genres and traditions with foreign ones.

Proper noun

Tropicália

  1. A Brazilian art movement that arose in the late 1960s, characterized by the amalgamation of Brazilian genres and traditions with foreign ones.

Forms of Tropicália

alternative formTropicalia

Origin of Tropicália

From Brazilian Portuguese tropicália.

Questions about Tropicália

What does Tropicália mean?
Tropicália means a Brazilian art movement that arose in the late 1960s, characterized by the amalgamation of Brazilian genres and traditions with foreign ones.
What part of speech is Tropicália?
Tropicália is a proper noun.

Words near Tropicália in the dictionary

  1. tropick
  2. tropicks
  3. tropicopolitan
  4. tropicopolitans
  5. tropics
  6. Tropicália
  7. tropidine
  8. tropidodiscid
  9. tropidodiscids
  10. tropidopheid
  11. tropidopheids

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