pindobusu

Old Tupi

Etymology

    From pindoba +‎ -usu.

    Noun

    pindobusu (?)

    1. (hapax legomenon) pindoba leaves used as roofing
      • [1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter LV, in Notícia do Brasil (in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro: João Ignancio da Silva, 1879, page 178:
        […] pindoba […] De junto do olho d’estas palmeiras tira o gentio tres e quatro folhas cerradas, que se depois abrem á mão, com as quaes cobrem as casas, a que chamam pindobuçú […]
        Pindoba: from the center of these palm trees, the natives take three or four closed leaves, that are later opened by hand, with which they cover their houses, calling it “pindobusu”.]

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