empennage


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
empennage /ɛmˈpɛnɪdʒ/
noun Aeronautics an arrangement of stabilizing surfaces at the tail of an aircraft.
– origin early 20th cent.: from Fr., from empenner ‘to feather an arrow’, from em- ‘in’ + penne ‘a feather’.
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