See also: bâteau

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Borrowed from French bateau.

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bateau (plural bateaux)

  1. A small, flat-bottomed type of boat.

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French

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From Old French batel, Anglo-Norman bat, from Old English bāt (English boat) + suffix from Latin -ellus. It displaced the native word nef, which comes from Latin navis.

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bateau m (plural bateaux)

  1. (nautical) a vessel of any size, a ship or boat

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Adjective

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bateau (feminine bateau, masculine plural bateaux, feminine plural bateaux)

  1. banal, unoriginal, hackneyed

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