anos de chumbo

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Portuguese

Etymology

Supposedly a rough calque of German Die bleierne Zeit, title of a West German film.

Noun

anos de chumbo m pl (plural only)

  1. any of various periods during the Cold War (from 1968 to 1974 in Brazil) marked by confrontation between left-wing radicals and right-wing governments