bateau
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Visitors can also explore several reconstructed buildings from that era, including a homestead house, and see a bateau riverboat.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
“I was suffering, with this heavy bateau of pressure in my head,” he says.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
From the front, the dress was simple enough: sleek and sleeveless with a flattering bateau neckline.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2018
In the picture, Portman is wearing what looks like a Dior-inspired, cherry-red dress with bateau neckline and sizable buttons, complemented by a triple strand of pearls.
From Time ● Dec. 16, 2015
The river was dark and a bateau mouche went by, all bright with lights, going fast and quiet up and out of sight under the bridge.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Crews restocked their bateaux with freight for the return trip, which could take as many as 15 days upstream.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2022
In the late 18th and 19th centuries, bateaux, flat-bottomed pole boats, navigated the tempestuous James, bringing cash crops such as tobacco, flour and later coal to the Eastern Seaboard.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2022
He traveled with two Penobscot Indian guides by canoe, in French bateaux, and on foot.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2018
“Anyone who’s got a bass boat or bateaux or a pirogue or any kind of water craft, they know what they’re doing.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2016
Tobacco and other merchandise was taken in bateaux down this river to Richmond.
From How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation by Martha Woodroof Hiden
