carioca
noun
a modification of the samba.
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carioca
1 American
[kar-ee-oh-kuh]
/ ˌkær iˈoʊ kə /
noun
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a modification of the samba.
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the music for this dance.
Carioca
2
American
[kar-ee-oh-kuh, kah-r ee-aw-kuh]
/ ˌkær iˈoʊ kə, ˌkɑ riˈɔ kə /
noun
carioca
British
/ ˌkærɪˈəʊkə /
noun
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a Brazilian dance similar to the samba
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a piece of music composed for this dance
Etymology
Origin of carioca1
First recorded in 1930–35; after Carioca
Origin of Carioca2
1820–30; < Brazilian Portuguese < Tupi, equivalent to cari white + oca house or boca descendant of
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Anitta came up as a choir girl in the church she attended with her maternal grandparents, but funk carioca, Brazil’s friskier, rhythmic approach to hip-hop, had captivated the singer from a young age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
Over the next few years, the sound was repurposed in a variety of new contexts, alongside cumbia, funk carioca and other styles.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
And, on Sundays, half of Rio’s waterfront highway is closed to traffic, making the distinctive orange bikes a quintessentially carioca way to reach the beach.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2019
Ms. Pinheiro is a born-and-bred carioca, as Rio natives are known, unlike Ms. Bündchen, who hails from Brazil’s southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, bordering Argentina and Uruguay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2016
The music ended, and a voice announced in laboriously classic Portuguese, with only a trace of the guttural tonation of the carioca, that the most important news items of the day would be given.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 by Bates, Harry
At the famed Casa Carioca nightclub in southern Germany, I danced one memorable night away.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
Police said they plan to occupy other nearby favelas, such as Manguinhos, Bandeira 2 and Conjunto Morar Carioca.
From Reuters ● Jan. 19, 2022
In the city of Pará de Minas, authorities were monitoring the Carioca hydroelectric dam amid concerns it could burst.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2022
In 1985, they came within a penalty shootout of winning the Campeonato Carioca, an achievement that would have registered extremely high on the Leicester Scale.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2017
Van had stopped at home and changed into an old t-shirt for one of her favorite Brazilian tecno-brega bands, Carioca Proibidão -- the forbidden guy from Rio.
From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory
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