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caboclo

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ca⋅bo⋅clo

[kuh-baw-kloo, -kloh, -boh-; Port. kuh-baw-kloo]
–noun, plural -clos [-klooz, -klohz; Port. -kloosh] .
a Brazilian of Indian or mixed Indian and white ancestry.

Origin:
1810–20; < Pg < Tupi caboco, caboculo, caboclo
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Ca·bo·clo or ca·bo·clo   (kə-bô'klōō, -klō)   
n.   pl. Ca·bo·clos or ca·bo·clos
A person of mixed Brazilian Indian and European or African ancestry.

[Portuguese, of Tupian origin.]
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