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balancelles

balancelles is the plural of balancelle.

Meaning of balancelle

Noun

balancelle (plural balancelles)

  1. A garden seat in the form of a swing.
  2. (uncommon) A small boat, typically with a single lateen sail, used in the Mediterranean.
    • ... sailing boat Tremolino, owned partly by Korzeniowski himself. He described her alternately as a balancelle, tartane, or felucca, but furnished her with two masts; boats of these types are single-masted.2007, Zdzisław Najder, Joseph Conrad: A Life, Camden House, →ISBN, page 60

Questions about balancelles

What is balancelles the plural of?
Balancelles is the plural of balancelle.

Words near balancelles in the dictionary

  1. balanced the books
  2. balanced the sheets
  3. balanced the ticket
  4. balancedness
  5. balancelle
  6. balancelles
  7. balanceman
  8. balancemen
  9. balancement
  10. balancer
  11. balancers

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