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Car·i·o·ca

/ˌkerēˈōkə/

noun
- 1. a native of Rio de Janeiro.
- 2. a Brazilian dance resembling the samba.
Word Origin mid 19th century: from Portuguese, from Tupi kari'oka ‘house of the white man’.
Scrabble Points: 11
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Carioca
Name given to a person born in Rio de Janeiro
Carioca ( or) is a demonym used to refer to anything related to the City of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. The original meaning of the term is controversial, maybe from Tupi language "kari' oka", meaning "white house" as the whitewashed stone houses of European settlers or even the colonists themselves, by merging "kara'iwa" (white man) and "oka" (house). Wikipedia
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