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churrascaria, n. orig. U.S.
Brit. |tʃʊraskəˈriːə|, U.S. |tʃəˌrɑskəˈriə|
Forms: 19– churrascaria, 19– churrasqueria
[‹ Brazilian Portuguese churrascaria and its etymon American Spanish churrasquería > n. + -ería -ery suffix.]
Esp. in Brazil and Argentina: a restaurant which specializes in churrasco.
1981N.Y. Times 20 Dec. x. 15/5 Another typical Brazilian meal is meat cooked on an open-pit barbecue... There are many of these restaurants (known as churrascarias) around Rio. 1984J. Malcolm Back Room in Somers Town xi. 91, I sat irritably in a half-empty churrascaria, chomping my way through steak, chops and chorizo sausages. 1994Washington Post 3 July (Mag. section) 17/1 Coco Loco is a Brazilian churrasqueria—a grill restaurant—and a tapas bar, two restaurants in one. 2001Mirror (Electronic ed.) 14 Apr. Vegetarians are in trouble in Rio—we go to a churrascaria, a barbecue house where waiters descend on you with roast meats on skewers, lavishing them on to your plate. |