cortiço
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cortiça (“cork (substance)”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]cortiço m (plural cortiços)
- beehive (nest of bees)
- Synonym: (more common) colmeia
- tenement (a run-down, low-rent building with multiple tenants)
- (loosely) shanty town (cluster of impoverished houses)
- Synonym: favela
- 1977, Clarice Lispector, A hora da estrela [The Hour of the Star]:
- Como a nordestina, há milhares de moças espalhadas por cortiços, vagas de cama num quarto, atrás de balcões trabalhando até a estafa.
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