cafelo
Macanese
editEtymology
editFrom dialectal Portuguese cafelo (“first plaster or mortar on a wall”).
Noun
editcafelo
- plastering or patching of walls
Usage notes
edit- The Macanese term refers to any plastering or patching of walls, not necessarily the first plaster.
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- 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
editPronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: ca‧fe‧lo
Noun
editcafelo m (plural cafelos)
- the first layer of mortar on a wall