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‖ retornado, n.|rɛtɔəˈnɑːdəʊ|
[Pg., f. pa. pple. of retornar return v.1]
A Portuguese subject who returns to settle in Portugal instead of remaining in a former Portuguese colony after independence.
1976Economist 5 June 45/2 Nobody knows for sure exactly how many retornados there are now in Portugal. 1978Guardian Weekly 7 May 13/2 He is a retornado—he came back from ‘over there’. A colonist? Come, he hadn't been 20 years in Angola when the dream came to an abrupt end outside the mob-besieged gates of Luanda's airport. 1984Times 25 Apr. 17/3 Portugal..has, against many predictions, absorbed its retornados. 1987Financial Times 30 Oct. p. vi/4 The country had..to make room for 700,000 ‘retornados’ from overseas—with a further influx still expected from Macao. |