Dictionary

vapeur

/va.pœʁ/

noun, feminine/va.pœʁ/plural: vapeurs

steam; vapour

Inherited from Middle French vapeur, from Old French vapour, vapor, borrowed from Latin vapor m.

noun, masculine/va.pœʁ/plural: vapeurs

steamship

Ellipsis of bateau à vapeur, from vapeur (“steam, vapor”).