Noun: nau
Sample Sentences
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Bentley Duncan has even suggested that it was the prospect of trade rather than the doubtful facilities of the dockyard that persuaded so many naus to stop at Mozambique Island. [2008, Liam Matthew Brockey, Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World:]
Nouns inflected like nau
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Portuguese nau. Doublet of nef and nave. See: Portuguese Nouns '
nau'.