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noun, feminine

navette

/na.vɛt/

noun, feminine/na.vɛt/plural: navettes

shuttle (in weaving); shuttle (land vehicle); shuttle (space vehicle); incense boat; a kind of biscuit from Marseille, flavoured with orange blossom

From Latin nāvis (“ship”) + -ette (referring to the boat-like shape of a shuttle).