café com leite

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Portuguese

Etymology

Literally, coffee with milk.

Noun

café com leite m (plural cafés com leite)

  1. greenhorn (inexperienced person)
  2. (Brazil, politics, historical) the oligarchic domination of Brazilian politics by the coffee industry (São Paulo) and dairy industry (Minas Gerais) during the First Brazilian Republic (1889–1930)
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see café,‎ com,‎ leite.

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