paredão

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From parede (“wall”) +‎ -ão. === Pronunciation === === Noun === paredão m (plural paredões) augmentative of parede (geology) rock face (vertical expanse of rock) (slang) a wall in front of which people are lined up to be punished, especially executed by firing squad === Further reading === “paredão”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “paredão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026