quilombo

From Portuguese quilombo, and its source Kimbundu kilombo (“refuge, encampment”).

quilombo (plural quilombos)

1. (now historical) A fortified residence or encampment in Angola, or the military power associated with it. [from 19th c.]
2. A remote settlement in inland Brazil originally founded by fugitive slaves or their descendants. [from 19th c.]
   • 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 115:

     The rugged, trackless and densely forested hills were almost impenetrable and the quilombos were spread widely.

• palenque

Borrowed from Kimbundu kilombo.

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quilombo m (plural quilombos)

1. (Brazil) a quilombo

• mocambo

From Portuguese quilombo.

• IPA^(key): /kiˈlombo/ [kiˈlõm.bo]

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• Rhymes: -ombo
• Syllabification: qui‧lom‧bo

quilombo m (plural quilombos)

1. (Argentina, Lunfardo) brothel
2. (Argentina, Lunfardo) big mess
3. (Venezuela) boondocks

• “quilombo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014