Old Portuguese
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Old Portuguese, Diez mentions senhor rainha, mia sennor formosa, my beautiful mistress.211.Marsh, p.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
Old Portuguese men and Brazilian women seemed very much affected— sobbing, beating their breasts, and telling their beads.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
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