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bateau
[ ba-toh; French ba-toh ]
bateau
/ bato; bæˈtəʊ /
noun
- a light flat-bottomed boat used on rivers in Canada and the northern US
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bateau1
C18: from French: boat, from Old French batel , from Old English bāt ; see boat
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Example Sentences
This time his mother, his old Frances, had been dragged into the infamous joke of the "Bateau de fleurs."
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Malgr les efforts du bateau de sauvetage et des lignes envoyes au moyen du fusil porte-amarre, quatre hommes et le mousse ont pri.
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One day there came up the river a bateau from Tadoussac, bringing the news that the ice was all out of the St. Lawrence.
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Much surprised, Mandy Ann knelt upright and 57 looked out over the edge of the bateau.
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Meanwhile the bateau had swept down swiftly, and passed them at a distance of not more than a hundred yards.
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