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Etymology

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From Portuguese mocambo, from Kimbundu [Term?].

Noun

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mocambo (plural mocambos)

  1. (now historical) A community made up of former slaves in colonial Brazil.
    • 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 517:
      The captured animals have been taken, once night fell, to pens behind the Mocambo.
    • 1996, Stuart B Schwartz, Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery, page 109:
      The mocambo represented an expression of social protest in a slave society.
    • 2021, Ronald H Chilcote, Protest and Resistance in Angola and Brazil: Comparative Studies, page 251:
      Such meetings were held in Macaco, the largest mocambo, which housed five thousand blacks and the supreme chieftain.

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: mo‧cam‧bo

Noun

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mocambo m (plural mocambos)

  1. (Brazil) refuge for fleeing slaves
    Synonym: (Brazil) quilombo
  2. (Brazil) shanty