Reconcentrado

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reconcentrado \Re*con`cen*tra"do\, n. [Sp., p.p. of reconcentrar
     to inclose, to reconcentrate.]
     Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the
     Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of
     the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military
     authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and


     later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns
     themselves.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]