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- noun Plural form of
Botocudo .
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Examples
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Do you know, in all history, including that of the Botocudos, anything more imbecile than the Right of the National Assembly?
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“Do you want to make Caribs or Botocudos of them?”
Madame Bovary 2003
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"The Botocudos of Brazil held the moon in high veneration, and attributed to her influence the chief phenomena in nature."
Moon Lore Timothy Harley
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This limitation, as we have already seen, is shared by the Botocudos, the Chiquitos, and many of the other native races of South
The Number Concept Its Origin and Development Levi Leonard Conant
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In South America, for example, "the Botocudos are said to give the highest rank among the heavenly bodies to Taru, the moon, as causing thunder and lightning and the failure of vegetables and fruits, and as even sometimes falling to the earth, whereby many men die."
Moon Lore Timothy Harley
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Avé-Lallemant [5] says of the Botocudos, that the men and the women seemed extraordinarily alike.
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Do you know, in all history, including that of the Botocudos, anything more imbecile than the Right of the National Assembly?
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921
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The Botocudos of South America areaccording to Dr Paul Ehrenreich who has observed them1 an ungentlemanly tribe, very low in the social scale.
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The Botocudos are little better than a leaderless horde, and pay scant respect to their chieftain; they live only for their immediate bodily needs, and take small thought for the morrow, still less for the past.
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Claros, and Franciscans in Theophilo Ottoni and Itambacury, are engaged in Christianizing the Indian tribes of Botocudos.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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