Bateau

A boat neck - also known as a bateau neck - refers to a wide neckline that runs horizontally, front and back, almost to the shoulders. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The bateau is a thin flat wafer that flies very fast and then rotates in midair so the shooter can see it and get a shot off.

The modern 'bateau' is to be found only among keeled sailing craft. ❋ William Charles Henry Wood (1905)

The common punt is the best known form of it; the dory by far the handiest all round; the cargo barge the biggest; and the old-fashioned 'bateau' the most characteristically Canadian. ❋ William Charles Henry Wood (1905)

A moment more, and -- as he saw Sandy step out of the "bateau" with the boy, now sobbing feebly, in his arms -- he knew that his vengeance had been made for ever impossible. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)

The young man clung rather faintly to the supporting planks, as if he had overstrained himself; and two or three hands, who had already shoved off a "bateau," pushed out and picked him up with his burden. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)

To others, the great usine* on the water's edge made an interesting contrast to the serene scene down below, where a Franco-American couple ventured over the rocky coastline, out to the water, to wait patiently for the bateau pointu* in the distance ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

The name of this friendly looking restaurant, is taken from the title of a sombre poem “Le bateau ivre”. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Français · Taïwan brûle le bateau du dieu de la peste ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Le bateau ivre” is a poem written by Arthur Rimbault in 1872, about a drunken boat carrying Flemish wheat or English cotton, no longer pulled by ropes and floating down impassible rivers, running into the furious breakers of the sea, dancing on the waves, lighter than a cork, bathing in the Poem of the Sea, nacrous waves, silver suns ... piercing the red skies … ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then canoe and bateau answered to the swift current of the Mackenzie, and they plunged into the Great Barren Ground. ❋ Unknown (2010)

French Vocabulary tout simplement = quite simply le bateau = boat ici = here la falaise littorale = sea cliff paf! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Avant l'avènement de l'avion, ces voyageurs, arrivant du nord de l'Europe, de Paris et d'Angleterre notamment, faisaient une halte d'une nuit avant de repartir en bateau. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A day came when Leclère gathered his dogs together and floated down in a bateau to Forty Mile, and on to the Porcupine, where he took a commission from the P.C. Company, and went exploring for the better part of a year. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On his blog Le bateau libre, literary critic Frédéric Ferney points, about her latest book Nulle part dans la maison de mon père («Nowhere in my father's house», 2007) [Fr]: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yes, here, just east ofMarseillesin this sparkling, bateau-bustlingbay, where the locals and the tourists sit sipping coffee or wine at the outdoor cafes ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

To make sense of four tumultuous days at Fifa's congress in Zurich, borrow Sepp Blatter's favoured metaphor, the organisation's president likening of world football's governing body to "un bateau" – a ship – "in difficult, troubled waters", and navigate straight from beginning to end. ❋ Unknown (2011)

-- SEINE RIVER Cruise on a bateau mouche (boat), board near the Eiffel Tower, take the métro to Trocadero, walk across to Eiffel Tower, easy, relaxing, worth the time ❋ Unknown (2009)