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bateau

[ba-toh, ba-toh] / bæˈtoʊ, baˈtoʊ /




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In fact, Smith was practically raised on a bateau thanks to his father, Ralph, the festival chairman for 15 years.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2022

Ms. McIntyre, wearing an ivory crepe wedding gown with a bateau neck by Pronovias, walked down an aisle lighted by stained-glass filtered sunlight.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2020

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

Several boat launches provide access to the East Branch of the Penobscot River, which Thoreau rode on a flat-bottomed bateau on his final visit here in 1857.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 11, 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

One thousand or more bateaux make the ascent to Angers from the Loire at La Pointe each year, all laden with a miscellaneous cargo of merchandise.

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield




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