‖ seringueiro
(sɛriŋˈgeru)
Also (erron.) seringero.
[Pg., f. seringa.]
In Brazil: a person employed to gather rubber.
| 1860 Mayne Reid Odd People 82 The ‘seringero’ has provided a large quantity of palm-nuts, with which he intends to make a fire for smoking the caoutchouc. 1880 [see seringa 2]. 1913 [see estrada]. 1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. 797/1 A Portuguese novelist, perhaps the only literary man who has ever actually worked as a seringueiro. 1968 R. E. Poppino Brazil iv. 141 The rubber worker—known as a seringueiro—..also prepared his own crude shelter. 1970 E. B. Burns Hist. Brazil v. 240 The dwindling number of Indians was pressed into service as seringueiros... The isolated, difficult life of the exploited seringueiro explained the recruitment problem. |