bateau
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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
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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