mocambo

English

Etymology

From Portuguese mocambo, from Kimbundu [Term?].

Noun

mocambo (plural mocambos)

(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.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /moˈkɐ̃.bu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /moˈkɐ̃.bo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /muˈkɐ̃.bu/

Hyphenation: mo‧cam‧bo

Noun

mocambo m (plural mocambos)

(Brazil) refuge for fleeing slaves
Synonym: (Brazil) quilombo
(Brazil) shanty

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