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Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: ninho de geada

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ninho de geada
Aug 1st 2012, 22:30


Revision as of 22:30, 1 August 2012

Portuguese

Etymology

Ninho + de ("of") + geada ("frost").

Noun

ninho de geada m. (plural ninhos de geada)

  1. (agriculture, regional, Paraná, São Paulo state) A place where destructive frosts occur frequently.
    • 1943, Francisco Marins, Mensario do "Jornal do Commercio" (artigos de collaboração), v.23, ed.1, page 7:
      Continuando a sua marcha deteve-se o cafesal longamente à altura de Rio Claro, que com Piracicaba, Araras, era tido como perigosíssimo "ninho de geada".
      Continuing its advance, the coffee plantation was detained for a long time at the height of the Claro River, that with Piracicaba, Araras, was considered an extremely dangerous "frost nest".
    • 1962, Francisco Marins, Clarão na serra, Atelie Editorial, page 176:
      Como se costuma dizer, em linguagem de agricultor, plantou-se o café em "ninho de geada".
      As they say, in farmer language, coffee was planted in a "frost nest".
    • 1962, Francisco Marins, Clarão na serra, Atelie Editorial, page 176:
      — Não quis abrir uma fazenda de café em ninho de geada?
      — He didn't want to start a coffee farm on a frost nest?
    • 1996, Godofredo de Oliveira Neto, O bruxo do contestado: romance, Editora Nova Fronteira, page 149:
      O frio, numa região ninho de geada, era tanto que dormiram na casa do empregado do homem que vendia os pinheiros.
      The cold, in a frost nest region, was such that they slept in the house of the pine salesman's employee.
    • 2000, Eduardo Etzel, Filosofando com o Miró, Atelie Editorial, page 200:
      Teve azar, como se viu mais tarde, comprou terras baixas e acabou ficando, pela localização, com um ninho de geada.
      He was unlucky, as he would later find out, [because he] bought low lands and ended up, due to the location, with a frost nest.

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