Lurde a margarida apareceu

13:05 Jun 19, 2016 

That's the song that immediately came to my mind. I didn't know there was another one before. Anyway, it seems we interpeted it the sam way. SO, for Andrea, that's what's important.
Bom domingo!

07:55 Jun 19, 2016 

The carnival song you mention seems to be actually a second song, that was inspired by it, and not the roots of it.

07:53 Jun 19, 2016 

I was writing it when you answer came, so I just went ahead.

22:24 Jun 18, 2016 

that (about the song and the expression) was already in my answer, Paula.

22:07 Jun 18, 2016 

“Apareceu a margarida" is not offensive :)

22:05 Jun 18, 2016 

In Brazil, we use the expression “apareceu a Margarida” when someone who is absent for a while shows up suddenly or unexpected. It is often a good surprise. It doesn’t matter your actual name.

A theory is that the expression comes from a popular song, in which there was a very beautiful woman called Margarida who lived in a castle, which was very tall. The knights who wanted to see her started to take down stone by stone, and then suddenly “Margarita appeared”.

Onde Está a Margarida?
http://www.letras.com.br/#!cantigas-populares/onde-esta-a-ma...

There is also a carnival song: Apareceu a Margarida
https://www.letras.com/marchinhas-de-carnaval/959716/

Margarida is a lady’s name and I don’t think it has a sexual connotation per se. In context, if there was a picture of something that was much awaited, then it could mean that something, from her face to her “private parts”. I think this needs to be just as ambiguous in your translation.

I have never heard ”lurde” as an expression, but as a nickname for Lurdes or Lourdes (also a person’s name). I wonder if one of them was called Lurde then?