flotage
English
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editFrom Old French flotage (modern French flottage).
Noun
editflotage (countable and uncountable, plural flotages)
- The state of floating.
- Something which floats on the sea or in rivers; flotsam.
- The floating capacity of a thing, especially a vessel.
References
edit- “flotage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Old French
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editflotage oblique singular, m (oblique plural flotages, nominative singular flotages, nominative plural flotage)
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edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (flotage)