maracatu

English

Noun

maracatu (uncountable)

1. A Brazilian performance genre involving parades and music.
   • 2008 January 15, Jon Pareles, “To See (and Hear) the World in Five Hours: Unique Sounds Ripe for Import”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Nation Beat, from exotic Brooklyn, uses the maracatu beat and rabeca fiddle of northeastern Brazil, and it has a Brazilian singer, Liliana Araújo.

Spanish

Noun

maracatu m (uncountable)

1. maracatu