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bloco

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(masculine) block
(masculine) bloc
(masculine) pad, notebook
(Brazil, masculine) group of musicians and performers that mobilize crowds during carnival in Brazil

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/ˈblɔ.ku/

From French bloc (“group, block”), from Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch bloc (“treetrunk”), from Old Saxon *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhulg'-, from *bhelg'- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”).