Definition of "quilombo" []

• A remote, inland settlement originally settled by fugitive slaves (or others). (noun)

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• "This type of community is known as a quilombo, from an Angolan word that means"
• ""An Angolan word for encampment, 'quilombo' refers to the villages throughout Brazil originally founded by insurgent and fugitive slaves under desperate conditions," notes"
• ""quilombo" with the administration of my apartment building all by myself."