batteau
noun
batteaux
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pluralof batteau.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But on the 5th of July the whole army of nearly sixteen thousand men embarked in boats and batteaux for Ticonderoga.
From Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
With sweep and sail, the lazy flotilla of batteaux was urged down the lake to Isle la Motte, where Montgomery was joined by Schuyler, who though ill had hastened on from Albany.
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
I received from the commanding officer eighty barrels of provisions, and changed two whale-boats for as many batteaux, which proved leaky.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
On the sixth of March at the mouth of the Kentucky river they came upon Wilkinson’s flotilla of five large batteaux loaded with tobacco and produce consigned to the Spanish Intendant at New Orleans.
From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt
There they loaded their cattle into flat boats, or batteaux, or on rafts of poplar logs and floated down the Ohio; carefully keeping to the center of the stream, out of range from the shore.
From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt
