Santos-Dumont

[san-tuhs-doo-mont, -dyoo-, sahn-tooz-doo-mawnt]

noun

1. Alberto 1873–1932, Brazilian aeronaut in France: designer and builder of dirigibles and airships.

Santos-Dumont

/ sɑ̃todymɔ̃ /

noun

1. Alberto (albɛrto). 1873–1932, Brazilian aeronaut, living in France. He constructed dirigibles and aircraft, including a monoplane (1909)

Example Sentences

More than a century ago, The New York Times reported that an aviation pioneer named Alberto Santos-Dumont had “coined a word.”

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Galeries Lafayette follows Apple, which opened a store in November at the corner of Rue Washington in a 19th-century apartment building that was once home to the Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont.

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He also put in five fellow Brazilians, including the aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, represented by a 1929 pen-and-ink sketch of some of his flying machines.

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In a statement on the offer he mentioned how, a century ago, Alberto Santos-Dumont, a famous aviator, complained to his friend, Louis Cartier, about the difficulty of checking his pocket watch while flying.

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The review in The New York Times praised her “flutelike Santos-Dumont notes,” comparing her to a Brazilian aviation pioneer, and added, in a reference to a Wild West gunslinger: “She hit that high G as promised, but it is like Bat Masterson hitting a tomato can with a .44 at four paces.”

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