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Thursday, March 8, 2007
Today’s Word
nacelle • noun
a streamlined casing on the outside of an aircraft or motor vehicle, especially one housing an aircraft engine.
• the passenger compartment of an airship.
— origin early 20th cent. (originally denoting the car of an airship): from French, from late Latin navicella, diminutive of Latin navis ‘ship’.
Okay, I thought Star Trek totally made that word up.
