radeau
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French radeau.
Noun
radeau (plural radeaus or radeaux)
- A float; a raft.
- 1859, Life of Washington, Washington Irving:
- Then three vessels under sail, and one at anchor, above Split Rock, and behind it the radeau Thunderer, noted in the last year's naval fight.
- 1859, Life of Washington, Washington Irving:
Anagrams
- auraed
French
Etymology
From Old Occitan radel, a diminutive of rat, itself from Latin ratis (“raft”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁa.do/
Audio (file)
Noun
radeau m (plural radeaux)
- raft
- 1964, “Les copains d'abord”, performed by Georges Brassens:
- Non, ce n'était pas le radeau / De la Méduse, ce bateau / Qu'on se le dise au fond des ports / Dise au fond des ports / Il naviguait en père peinard / Sur la grand-mare des canards / Et s'app'lait les Copains d'abord
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Descendants
- → English: radeau
Further reading
- “radeau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.