e/Cortiço

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has glosseng: Cortiço, or gueto (both are Brazilian Portuguese equivalents for ghetto), is a Portuguese term commonly used in Brazil and Portugal to describe an area of urban housing where many people live in conditions of poor hygiene and poverty. Some cortiços can be seen in big Brazilian cities such as São Paulo, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro,and Recife. Cortiços (or tenements) differ from favelas in being large houses divided into small rooms, rather than automously-built neighborhoods. People who live in cortiços are normally families in one very small room who have to share one bathroom and have no privacy.
lexicalizationeng: Cortico
lexicalizationeng: Cortiço
instance of(noun) a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
slum, slum area
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has glosspor: Um cortiço é um aglomerado de casas que serve de habitação coletiva para a população pobre. Também é conhecida pelo nome de cabeça-de-porco, que segundo Antenor Nascentes (apud Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa) surge a partir
lexicalizationpor: Cortiço

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