baie de Guanabara

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɛ d(ə) ɡa.na.ba.ʁa/

Proper noun

baie de Guanabara f

  1. Guanabara Bay (a bay in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
    • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter 9, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 90:
      Le 10 novembre, Villegaignon mouille dans la baie de Guanabara, où Français et Portugais se disputaient depuis plusieurs années les faveurs des indigènes.
      On November 10th, Villegaignon anchored in the bay of Guanabara, where for several years the French and the Portuguese had been vying with each other in wooing the natives.
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