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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-435/
- Published: 2021-04-07T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-27T00:26:24.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

The word for today is…

nacelle (noun) – : a streamlined enclosure (as for an engine) on an aircraft

Source :[ Online Etymology Dictionary](https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=nacelle&ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : late 15c., “small boat,” from Old French nacele “little boat, bark, skiff” (12c., Modern French nacelle), from Vulgar Latin \*naucella, from Late Latin navicella “a little ship,” diminutive of Latin navis “ship”. The original sense was soon obsolete. Modern meaning “gondola of an airship” is from 1901, a borrowing from French; extended to “cockpit of an aircraft” by 1914; later transferred to other similar housings and structures.

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