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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese caboclo, borrowed from Old Tupi kuriboka.
Noun
caboclo (plural caboclos)
- A person of mixed Brazilian Indian and European or African descent.
1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 138:Dawn found him still awake, in one of the two taverns of Cumbe, drinking brandy with sour cherries and having a ballad contest with the caboclo Matias de Tavares.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Tupi kuriboka.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
caboclo (feminine cabocla, masculine plural caboclos, feminine plural caboclas)
- (Brazil) copper-coloured
Noun
caboclo m (plural caboclos, feminine cabocla, feminine plural caboclas)
- (Brazil) caboclo (person of mixed Indigenous Brazilian and European ancestry)
- Hypernym: pardo
- Coordinate term: cafuzo
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