Braz

See also: braz, brąz, and Braz.

English

Proper noun

Braz

1. Abbreviation of Brazil.

Adjective

Braz (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of Brazilian.

Anagrams

• Zbar

French

Etymology

From Portuguese Brás.

Proper noun

Braz m

1. District of São Paulo, Brazil (Brás in Portuguese)
   • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter XI, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 109; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:

     Sur le talus descendant vers le Tamanduatehy et qui domine les quartiers populaires du Braz et de la Penha, subsistaient encore en 1935 quelques ruelles provinciales et des largos : places carrées et herbues, entourées de maisons basses à toit de tuiles et à petites fenêtres grillagées, peintes à la chaux, [...]

     — On the slope which leads down to the Tamanduatehy and overlooks the working-class districts of Braz and Penha, there still remained, in 1935, a few small provinvial streets and largos, grassy squares surrounded by low, tiled and whitewashed houses with small barred windows.