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Where does “carcaça” come from?

carcaça (Portuguese) comes from French carcasse, from Old French charcois.

carcaça (Portuguese): carcass; loaf

Definitions

  1. carcass; loaf

Ancestry of “carcaça”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcarcassecarcass; carcass; skeleton; bones; an assembly of...
2Old Frenchcharcois—
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