sertanistas

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A form of sertanista — A specialist in the undeveloped interior of Brazil and other parts of Portuguese America

Scrabble 11

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of sertanista

    Anthropologists and Brazilian frontiersmen called sertanistas likened the policy to genocide.

    2015 August 8, Andrew Lawler, “Do the Amazon’s Last Isolated Tribes Have a Future?”, in New York Times
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Chicago

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