aldeia means in colonial Brazil, a settlement created to assimilate and convert the indigenous population, similar to the Spanish reducción. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 99 out of 100.
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese aldeia. Doublet of aldea
noun
- In colonial Brazil, a settlement created to assimilate and convert the indigenous population, similar to the Spanish reducción“It is little wonder that the settlers envied the wealth of the Jesuit aldeias, and resented what they saw as the Jesuits’ obstruction of their efforts to procure an adequate supply of labour for their own plantations.”