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prettygoodwordradeau (ruh-DOH) - n., a raft or float; esp., an armed raft or scow used as a floating battery during the War of American Independence.
Plural radeaux, as you might guess from its French origin: adopted in the 1750s from French, where it meant simply raft, from Provençal radel, from conjectured Vulgar Latin form *ratellus, diminutive of Latin ratis, raft.
---L.
Plural radeaux, as you might guess from its French origin: adopted in the 1750s from French, where it meant simply raft, from Provençal radel, from conjectured Vulgar Latin form *ratellus, diminutive of Latin ratis, raft.
---L.
