canotier

[kan-uh-tyey]

noun

1. a fabric constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of yachting clothes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of canotier¹

< French: boatman, equivalent to canot open boat (earlier canoe < Spanish canoa canoe, conformed to the French suffix -ot ) + -ier -ier ²

Example Sentences

Ivor Braka, a London dealer, bought Severini’s pastel from 1912-13, “Etude pour Autoportrait au Canotier,” for $4.7 million, more than three times its $1.5 million estimate.

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They respected him because he was the best canotier on the river; a better even than his malformed brother Bateese, now with the army.

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Hard at work, stand hundreds of strong and bare armed women, who scrub and wring their linen, while they sing and reply to the banter of passing bargee or canotier.

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Qui dit canot dit canotier—a glance will assure you that she did not beach herself in that position, above high-water mark, still less furl her own sail and stow it.

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Perhaps before sundown some canotier may find her floating far in the bay,—drifting upon her face in a thousand feet of water,—with faithful dead hands still holding fast the property of her employer.

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