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Definition of Capoeira
1. a Brazilian dance [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capoeira
Literary usage of Capoeira
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brazil Today and Tomorrow by Lilian Elwyn (Elliott) Joyce (1917)
"capoeira: second growth of vegetation after land has been cleared. Also applied
to kind of basket made of native grass; also to the Brazilian equivalent to ..."
2. Agrodiversity: Learning from Farmers Across the World by Harold Brookfield, Helen Parsons, Muriel Brookfield (2003)
"... de capoeira system since it was demonstrated by the expert farmer (Figure 3.8).
Most of them are close friends and family members of the expert farmer. ..."
3. A Year in Brazil: With Notes on the Abolition of Slavery, the Finances of by Hastings Charles Dent (1886)
"Here the undergrowth was much less than in the capoeira, where I had been hacking
away all morning, sometimes passing through lovely dells carpeted with ..."
4. Brazil by Anton Jakob, Fernanda Cordoeiro, Claus Jäke (2000)
"In 1990. one of his students. Lindemberg Cardoso. created Lidia de Oxum. the first
Brazilian opera to take slavery as its theme. capoeira in Bahia There ..."
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