Regatão: row-boats of petty traders upon Amazonian waterways.
Resaca: violent wave-movement, often seen in Rio and Recife, when a receding meets an oncoming wave and water is thrown up; resacas along the Rio sea-front often throw spray sixty feet into the air.
Romaria: pilgrimage made by religious-minded to the places where there are churches containing images of special devotion.
Safra: time of harvest; the crop yield is the colheita.
Seringa: gum of hevea brasiliensis; seringueira, rubber tree; seringueiro, man who collects rubber; seringal, rubber district in forest—pl. seringaes.
Serra: mountain range; serro, small hill. (Montanha, mountain.)
Sertão: Brazilian interior; pl. sertões. Sertanejo, sertanista, one who dwells in the sertão.
Tropa: troop—generally of mules, used for cargo carrying in interior of central and northern states; term also used in original sense of military regiment or battalion; tropeiro, the conductor of a troop of cargo mules or other animals.
Vaqueiro: (from vaca, cow)—employee specially employed upon stock-breeding estates. Compare with gaucho, the cowboy of the South.
