Cordel 1311586 130251026 2007-05-12T03:39:22Z Rsabbatini 3044 rm vandalism '''Cordel''' has multiple meanings in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]: * '''[[Cordel literature]]''', or ''"string literature"'', a kind of popular and cheap printed booklets containing [[novels]], [[poems]] and letters of [[song]]s, which are produced and sold in fairs and by sidestreet vendors in Northeast [[Brazil]]. So named because they are hanged from strings in order to display them to potential clients; * '''cordel''', a unit of length and one of a number of '''[[obsolete Spanish and Portuguese units of measurement]]'''; and * '''[[Cordel Do Fogo Encantado]]''', a popular band from Pernambuco, Brazil. '''Cordel''' also means "God's warrior" in [[Spain]] {{disambig}}