Brazils

See also: brazils

English

Proper noun

Brazils

  1. plural of Brazil
  2. (historical, with "the") (17th c.–early 20th c.) the colonies in the region of modern-day Brazil.
    • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
      I had once a mind to have gone to the Brazils and have settled myself there, for I was, as it were, naturalised to the place […]
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