Meanings
nounmocambo (plural mocambos)
plural mocambos
- historicalA community made up of former slaves in colonial Brazil.
The mocambo represented an expression of social protest in a slave society.
1996, Stuart B Schwartz, Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery, page 1092 more examples
The captured animals have been taken, once night fell, to pens behind the Mocambo.
1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 517Such meetings were held in Macaco, the largest mocambo, which housed five thousand blacks and the supreme chieftain.
2021, Ronald H Chilcote, Protest and Resistance in Angola and Brazil: Comparative Studies, page 251
Origin
- Kimbundu[Term?]
- Portuguesemocambo
- Englishmocambo
From Portuguese mocambo, from Kimbundu [Term?].
More words from Portuguese, Kimbundu
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