abordage
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French abordage.
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Noun edit
abordage (plural abordages)
- (archaic) The act of boarding a ship as part of an attack. [since the mid 16th century][1]
- 1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae:
- But when we must proceed on one of our abordages, the heart of Francis Burke was in his boots; […]
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Noun edit
abordage m (plural abordages)
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Further reading edit
- “abordage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.