balancelle

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balancelle

  • /bælənˈsɛl/

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Borrowed from French balancelle.

noun 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.

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@misc{balancelle_2026,
  title = {balancelle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/balancelle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}