caboclo
Americannoun
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caboclos
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of caboclo
1810–20; < Portuguese < Tupi caboco, caboculo, caboclo
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The caboclo slid down lightly along the trunk and saw two little bodies who were whining, staggering, dragging themselves along.
From Brazilian Tales by Isaac Goldberg
The caboclo scratched his head and made no reply.
From Brazilian Tales by Isaac Goldberg
The caboclo jerked his shoulders nervously and pointed.
From The Record of Currupira by Robert Abernathy
A squat, swarthy man with rugged features, a caboclo, of white and Indian blood.
From The Record of Currupira by Robert Abernathy
And the caboclo, growling to himself, trampled upon them.
From Brazilian Tales by Isaac Goldberg
The bodies of these captured caboclos are soon found by the "police warriors" of the tribe and carried to the maloca.
From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Algot Lange
A hole about nine feet deep and eight feet wide is dug in the ground at a place where the caboclos are liable to come.
From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Algot Lange
The bell was being lowered when one of these natives, or caboclos, slid over the side of the boat and disappeared in the green depths.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine
I had now my first inkling of what was the cause of the commotion, and it did not take me long to understand that we were in danger from some Peruvian caboclos.
From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Algot Lange
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