Masculine

café com leite

Meaning

  1. (masculine) greenhorn (inexperienced person)
  2. (Brazilian, historical, masculine) the oligarchic domination of Brazilian politics by the coffee industry (São Paulo) and dairy industry (Minas Gerais) during the First Brazilian Republic (1889–1930)
  3. (masculine) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see café, com, leite.

Etymology

Literally, “coffee with milk”.

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