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Macanese
Etymology
From dialectal Portuguese cafelo (“first plaster or mortar on a wall”).
Noun
cafelo
- plastering or patching of walls
Usage notes
- The Macanese term refers to any plastering or patching of walls, not necessarily the first plaster.
Derived terms
References
- Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 338
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
cafelo m (plural cafelos)
- the first layer of mortar on a wall
Descendants