The Song's Title
The title A Portuguesa means "the Portuguese" while the word "song" is merely implied. In a very similar way, La Marseillaise, the national anthem of France, has a substantive referring to Marseille, the Belgian anthem, the Brabançonne, to Brabant, and the Socialist anthem, the Internationale, literally means "the International".
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