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noun
A member of a Brazilian art movement, Tropicália or Tropicalismo, of the late 1960s, encompassing theatre, poetry, and especially a mixture of music influenced by bossa nova, rock and roll, and various folk musics.
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Synonyms: tropicalist
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Brazilian Portuguese tropicalista (although apparently first attested later as noun). By surface analysis, tropical + -ista. Piecewise doublet of tropicalist.
