单词 | retornado |
释义 | retornadon. Now chiefly historical. A Portuguese subject formerly resident in a Portuguese colony who returns to settle in Portugal after colonial independence. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Portugal > [noun] > returning to Portugal retornado1975 1975 New Society 13 Nov. 358/1 The left in the unions sees the retornados as a counter-revolutionary influence. 1978 Guardian 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. 1987 Financial 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. 1994 W. Minter Apartheid's Contras iv. 100 Most retornados concentrated their economic or political energies on survival in a Portugal oriented to Europe, not Africa. 2002 Luso-Brazilian Rev. 39 48 The retornados forced to undertake a rapid retreat from Portugal's African colonies following their independence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1975 |
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