maracatu

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English[edit]

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Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Noun[edit]

maracatu m (uncountable)

  1. maracatu