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Carioca ( or ) is a Brazilian noun or substantive used to refer to anything related to the city of Rio de Janeiro, the capital of the homonymous state of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. The original word, "kara'i oka", comes from the indigenous Tupi language meaning "white man's house." It is said that the first Portuguese dwellings in Rio de Janeiro were placed along a limpid stream, which was soon adapted into Portuguese, as Carioca.
The demonym meaning for the state of Rio de Janeiro is fluminense, taken from the Latin word flumen, meaning "river." For instance, someone from Niterói is both fluminense and niteroiense, and someone from Rio de Janeiro is fluminense or carioca.
Rio de Janeiro is an ethnically diverse city by the standards of the Western world's global cities. The last PNAD (National Research for Sample of Domiciles) census numbers for Rio de Janeiro are 8,576,000 White (53.6%), 5,376,000 Pardo (33.6%), 1,920,000 Black (12%) and 128,000 Asian or Indigenous (0.8%). The last PNAD census for the city of Rio de Janeiro is 3,193,588 White (50.5%), 2,244,997 Pardo (35.5%), 809,463 Black (12,8%) and 75,887 Asian or Indigenous (1.2%).
Like other Brazilians, cariocas speak Portuguese. The carioca accent and sociolect (also simply called "carioca", see below) are the most famous of Brazil, in part because Rede Globo, the second-largest television network in the world, is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. Thus, a lot of Brazilian TV programs, from news and documentary to entertainment (such as the novelas), feature carioca-acting and -speaking talent.
Carioca may refer to:
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Carioca, a name for the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro
- Carioca also refers to the Rio de Janeiro dialect of Portuguese
- Os Cariocas, a Brazilian popular music group
- "She's a Carioca (Ela é Carioca)" a song by Vinicius de Moraes
- Carioca Aqueduct an 18th-century Aqueduct in Rio
- Carioca (song), a song and a dance from the 1933 film Flying Down to Rio
- Volvo PV 36 Carioca
- José Carioca, a Disney character
- Carioca (card game), a card game similar to rummy style games
- Carioca/ Sugar Loaf field, a Brazilian oil field
- A Dynamic stretching exercise
"(The) Carioca" is a 1933 popular song with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn, as well as the name of the dance choreographed to it for the 1933 film Flying Down to Rio. It was sung in the film by Alice Gentle, Movita Castaneda and Etta Moten and danced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as part of an extended production dance number illustrating the ballroom dance. The dance, which was choreographed by the film's dance director, Dave Gould, assisted by Hermes Pan, was based on an earlier stage dance with the same name by Fanchon and Marco.
The word " Carioca" refers to inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro.
Astaire and Roger's short dance has historical significance, as it was their first screen dance together. Though billed fourth and fifth, many felt they stole the film, which became a big hit for RKO. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 7th Academy Awards, but lost to an even bigger Astaire and Rogers production number, " The Continental" from The Gay Divorcee (1934), their next film together and their first starring vehicle. They were billed by RKO as "The King and Queen of 'The Carioca.'"
While the song has become a jazz standard, the dance did not have longevity. Following the success of Flying Down to Rio, an attempt was made to propagate it as a new ballroom dance, without much success. It was a mixture of samba, maxixe, foxtrot and rhumba. The distinctive feature of the dance – at least as portrayed in the movie – was that it was to be danced with the partners' foreheads touching.
Carioca is a Latinoamerican card game similar to Rummy style card games with many variations. The variation described below is Perla's Cariocas.
Usage examples of "carioca".
She shuffled through her big shoulder bag and pulled out her pegboard chess set, stuffing Carioca into the bag in its place.
ENTERING his limousine, The Shadow ordered Stanley to drive to the Club Carioca, a glittering night club not far from Times Square.
The Club Carioca belonged to a very shady gentleman known as Beak Barlett.
For two years, Beak had been idle, so far as crooked work was concerned, unless trimming customers at the Club Carioca could be termed a crime.
CHAPTER VII THE NEW INFORMANT UPON leaving the Club Carioca, The Shadow had gone to call on Joseph Mileson.
Harry Vincent, his duty at the Club Carioca ended for the night, was making the rounds of hotels, inquiring for certain guests whose names were relayed to him.
Strolling into the Club Carioca, The Shadow, by seemingly being hard to satisfy as to a table location, managed to wangle one close to Beak's office.
There were early diners in the Club Carioca, but Treefe scarcely noticed them while being conducted to Beak's office.
Entering Moe's cab outside the Club Carioca, The Shadow opened a suitcase that lay on the seat and began rapid changes in attire, while Moe drove along darkened streets.
The streets were literally wall-to-wall with cariocas, dancing the samba, sweating, laughing, staggering in the heat, celebrating in the biggest spontaneous outpouring of joy that the city had ever seen.