Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of eastern Brazil, a suburb of Recife on the Atlantic Ocean. It was founded in 1537 as a colonial capital and held by the Dutch from 1630 to 1654.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sort of hunting-knife made at Olinda in Brazil.
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Examples
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Like many in Olinda, Marcondes plays forro, dances forro, and like to talk about forro.
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Like many in Olinda, Marcondes plays forro, dances forro, and like to talk about forro.
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(Soundbite of music) MURPHY: Tonight, the Quarteto Olinda is playing in a narrow, crowded room, and everyone is dancing.
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(Soundbite of music) MURPHY: Tonight, the Quarteto Olinda is playing in a narrow, crowded room, and everyone is dancing.
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For NPR News, this is Annie Murphy in Olinda, Brazil.
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For NPR News, this is Annie Murphy in Olinda, Brazil.
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Carmen Miranda's hat fetish may harken back to the early days when she was employed in a hat shop in Rio, which incidentally was called Olinda, the name of her oldest sister.
Archive 2009-11-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009
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Carmen Miranda's hat fetish may harken back to the early days when she was employed in a hat shop in Rio, which incidentally was called Olinda, the name of her oldest sister.
Guest Blogger Polly Guerin on Carmen Miranda Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009
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Yet even for women such as Olinda, the threat of a beating and the racial stigmatization of tattooing were rarely enough to dissuade them from having tinhlanga done.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Mr Axel said the campaign was desperately needed in the Dandenongs especially as small villages such as Olinda and Sassafras were severely impacted by the coverage of the Black
Star News Group 2010
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