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maloca|məˈləʊkə|
Also 9 malocca.
[Pg., a large hut, f. Amer. Sp., raid, attack, f. Araucanian malocan to fight (Webster).]
A large hut in certain Indian settlements in South America.
1860Mayne Reid Odd People 122 The Mundrucus build the malocca..only in their case it is not used as a dwelling, but rather as a grand arsenal, a council-chamber,..and, if need be, a fortress. Ibid. 47 Three or four hundred individuals not unfrequently assemble under the roof of a single malocca. 1944S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha's Rebellion in Backlands ii. iii. 175 The ruins of the malocas, or native villages. 1951J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle iii. v. 81 The village consisted only of three large malocas, with palm-thatched roofs reaching nearly to the ground. 1962N. Maxwell Witch-Doctor's Apprentice xiv. 171 In the Colombian Amazon, a maloca is the traditional dirt⁓floored, round or oval Indian house whose walls are made of the same thatch as its roof. |