gondola
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gondola /ˈgɒndələ/
▶noun
- 1 a light flat-bottomed boat used on Venetian canals, having a high point at each end and worked by one oar at the stern.
- 2 a cabin on a ski lift, or suspended from an airship or balloon.
- 3 (also gondola car) N. Amer. an open railway freight wagon.
- 4 Brit. a free-standing block of shelves used to display goods in a supermarket.
– origin C16: from Venetian Ital., from Rhaeto-Romance gondolà ‘to rock, roll’.
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