noun, feminine/mwɛt/plural: mouettes
gull; seagull
Related: mouette blanche, mouette rieuse
From Middle French mouette, from Old French moette, diminutive of Old French maoe (Anglo-Norman mave, mauve), from Old English mǣw (“seagull”), from Proto-Germanic *maiwaz (“seagull”). Compare mauvis. More at mew.