Definitions
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A popular dance music of Brazil, derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult.
- n. a Brazilian religious cult of African origin; combines voodoo elements with singing a chanting and dancing.
- n. Irish darling; -- an Irish term of address expressing affection.
WordNet 3.0
- n. popular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult
- n. a Brazilian religious cult of African origin; combines voodoo elements with singing and chanting and dancing
- n. (Brazil) followers of a religious cult of African origin
Examples
“These spiritual items can be associated with Roman Catholicism and other practices like candomblé, curanderismo, espiritismo, macumba and santerÃa, says Wiki.”
The Huffington Post: Angora Holly Polo: The Get Rich Bubble Bath
“These spiritual items can be associated with Roman Catholicism and other practices like candomblé, curanderismo, espiritismo, macumba and santería, says Wiki.”
The Huffington Post: Angora Holly Polo: The Get Rich Bubble Bath
“Everyone dresses in white on Reveillon, to honour the sea/macumba goddess, Iemãja”
“Indeed, it's our memory of Sarno's film, with its arousingly percussive score, that pointed out the inadequacy of MACUMBA SEXUAL's anemic and overly aerated synth score, which does nothing to communicate the power of Tara's effectively staged macumba rite or to resonate with any of the bizarre African nick-nacks adorning her desert lair.”
“Según el cónsul de Haití en Brasil, George Samuel Antoine, la culpa había sido de la macumba y de la raza: "O africano em si tem maldição.”
Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news
“According to Haiti's consul in Brazil, George Samuel Antoine, the fault lay with macumba, or African spiritism, and the race: "The African himself is damned.”
Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘macumba’.
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Foucault's Pendulum
telluric, isochronal, Agarttha, obverse, panta rei, numinous, ogive, nave, sapiential, didactic, archon, chthonian and 48 more...
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Hoodoo Guru
macumba, batuque, orixá, ifa, yemaja, mawu, nana buluku, lemba, yoruba, jeje, candomble, vodou and 6 more...
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Theorie: The Madwoman's Underclothes
'The Madwoman's Underclothes' book is a collection of writings by Germaine Greer from 1968 to 1985. The title refers to what she sees as being the media's obsession with her going bra-less. Warning...
homespun, shuck, flyte, animadversion, groover, tom jones, fucker, cocksman, sweety-sharp, goatman, ha-ha, corridor of power and 84 more...
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Eco echo
While cleaning out some drawers today (28 September 2008), I found a list of words from Foucault's Pendulum that I'd written fifteen or twenty years ago. I'm adding some of them here, along with ot...
pendulum, isochronal, sublunar, triadic, unnumbered, unstretchable, pentaculum, agarttha, panta rei, ein-sof, chthonian, chelae and 51 more...
Tweets
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mollusque The arrangement of glass cases along the sides, the alchemical altar in the center, the liturgy of a civilized eighteenth-century macumba--this was not accidental but symbolic, a strategem.
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 13 Sep 29, 2008
bilby "The Nordestino religion, called among other things macumba or candomblé, is a patchwork of voodoo, spiritism, animism and debased Catholicism, but the central ritual is cleansing.
- 'The São Francisco', Germaine Greer in The Madwoman's Underclothes. Sep 1, 2008
knitandpurl "The Americas were my district, a territory where you made a pile of money in a month of sweat and lost it in a night of gambling and women, where the Southern Cross blinked out its torrid message in the hot sky—WELCOME TO SOUTH AMERICA, CONTINENT OF CONTRASTS AND ROMANCE—not my kind of territory at first, hard and gritty and tough on the liver for a pure white man, yet once it got in your blood, you couldn't get over it even if you lived five lives more, because that macumba magic gets under the skin, those nights on the sand of the copacabana with the jet black mountains at your back and that purple ocean before your eyes, savage and sexy like a jaguar prowling for porterhouse steaks in a summer rain, or out there on the grassy flatness they call the pampas, under the stars so close down to a man he can touch 'em with his fingertips, so close he'd have to crawl on his belly just to get to his blanket spaced between sky and earth ... Well, sirs, a man gets to love it so much it near spoils 'im for any other life."
-Tintin in the New World by Frederic Tuten, p 168 Jul 10, 2008