Etymology

cascalho

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Today it means: A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand in which diamonds may be found. Full definition →

Portuguese cascalho
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  1. Portuguese · borrowed fromcascalho“a chip of stone, gravel”
  2. English todaycascalho

From Portuguese cascalho (“a chip of stone, gravel”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.