🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

alisadora de gelo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: alizaˈdoɾɐ dʒi ˈʒelu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Zamboni/zæmˈboʊ.ni/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A máquina de alisar gelo entrou no rinque."

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As noun
  1. 1

    A large machine used to clean and smooth the surface of an ice rink.

    "The Zamboni drove onto the ice during the intermission to prepare it for the third period."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the proper surname of Frank Zamboni, an Italian-American inventor who developed the first ice resurfacing machine in 1949. The trademarked proprietary eponym became widely adopted in English as a generic term for any ice resurfacer used in ice rinks.

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