Pernambuco

[ pur-nuhm-byoo-koh, -boo-; Portuguese per-nahm-boo-koo ]

noun

1. a state in northeastern Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). : Recife.
2. former name of Recife.

Pernambuco

/ ˌpɜːnəmˈbjuːkəʊ; pernəmˈbuku /

noun

1. a state of NE Brazil, on the Atlantic: consists of a humid coastal plain rising to a high inland plateau. Capital: Recife. Pop: 8 084 667 (2002). Area: 98 280 sq km (37 946 sq miles)
2. See Recife
   the former name of Recife

Example Sentences

Pernambuco had during the half century which had elapsed since the expulsion of the Dutch had time to recruit.

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Meantime the discontents in the northern provinces had broken out into open insurrection, in the captaincy of Pernambuco.

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There is not one bookseller in Pernambuco, and the population of its different parishes amounts to 70,000 souls!

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It was a more pleasant, polished evening than I had expected to pass in Pernambuco, especially now in a state of siege.

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We leave Pernambuco, with a firm persuasion that this part of Brazil at least will never again tamely submit to Portugal.

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