Definitions

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  • noun port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin

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Examples

  • I´m from Portugal and I have in evora a conventual pastry and everybody said that ours "pasteis de nata conventuais" are better then pasteis de belem, we also have "pao de rala", sweet brown bread distingued with a first price, and many others conventual cakes.

    Custard Tarts 2006

  • I was reading your post about pasteis de belem, they are realy good...

    Custard Tarts 2006

  • Such as he was, Joam Garral in large matters at different times had employed him to take his rafts to belem, and he had never had cause to repent it.

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

  • Portugal is one of the best kept secrets in Europe though it is becoming more popular … the best part is you can go from region to region and have a new pastry to taste, but the most famous and most pleasurable are the pasteis de nata em belem and when my aunt and uncle came to visit they secretly ordered a dozen and brought them to their hotel room and ate them until they were sick … can you blame them though? carrie |

    pasteis de nata 2007

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