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Old Portuguese

American  

noun

  1. the language of Portugal as spoken and written from the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries.


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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

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

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