Castelo Branco

[ kahs-te-loo brahn-koo ]

noun

1. Hum·ber·todeA·len·car [oo, n, -, ber, -t, oo, -di-ah-la, n, -, kahr], 1900–67, Brazilian general and statesman: president 1964–67.

Example Sentences

Portugal is on high alert for blazes, and more than 500 firefighters are scrambling to put out flames that started on Friday afternoon in a forest area in the central Castelo Branco district.

From Reuters

For Maria Carmo, a 43-year-old university lecturer from the village of Barco, in the central district of Castelo Branco, such lack of engagement reveals the alienation that most urban or coastal-dwelling Portuguese feel towards the country’s rural heartlands.

From The Guardian

Her campaign group in Castelo Branco has already split, with half its members now open to the possibility of an open-pit lithium mine above her village.

From The Guardian

Oliveira constructs an enigmatic, unbalanced triangle consisting of a beautiful and innocent English woman, Francisca “Fanny” Owen, a louche and handsome Portuguese aristocrat, José Augusto, and the cynical writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

From New York Times

The repression intensified under Castelo Branco’s hardline successor, Artur da Costa e Silva, who took power in 1967.

From The Guardian