umbigada
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Portuguese
Etymology
From umbigo (“navel”) + -ada.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: um‧bi‧ga‧da
Noun
umbigada f (plural umbigadas)
- (anatomy) region around the navel
- belly-bump
- (dance) choreography used in various African or Afro-Brazilian dances
- 2008, André Diniz, Almanaque do Carnaval: A história do carnaval, o que ouvir, o que ler, onde curtir, Zahar, →ISBN, page 47:
- O samba de roda da Bahia, o jongo, o lundu, o coco, o calango e o cateretê são tradições musicais e coreográficas ligadas ao universo do negro que podem ser definidas como “samba de umbigada”. Na umbigada, “todos os participantes ...
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