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carioca

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
carioca /ˌkarɪˈəʊkə/

▶noun

1 a native of Rio de Janeiro.

2 a Brazilian dance resembling the samba.

– origin C19: from Port., from Tupi kari'oka ‘house of the white man’.

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