First made for freight boats called bateaux, it was upgraded between 1840 and 1850 to accommodate larger boats towed by mules and horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vintage Canal Boats] Reference

En Cornouaille est un port, il y vient cent bateaux.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

For sixteen days the boatmen poled their bateaux up the river.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858] Reference

Plenty of what they call “bateaux mouches” start from the city heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heading to paris… « The Paradigm Shift] Reference

Drowsy, lumber-laden bateaux and ocean-liners crept and smoked about the docks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

Maria, and Amedee also, already played the 'Bouquet de Bal' or 'Papa, les p'tits bateaux'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

And just to up the melancholy on this gray day, how about the Raphael song "les petits bateaux"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

Là les enfants attendent des bateaux, qui dans l'île sont allés, au milieu du lac plein de rires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

Les bateaux etant construit dans le quartier des mouches, enfin un nom dans l'genre, ils en ont pris le nom!.    From Wordnik.com.  [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference

There was also a store-house on the bank of the river, containing pork, flour, iron, bateaux, and birches, locked up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference

We passed some bateaux pecheurs, saw sundry shoals of fish furrowing the water, and after two hours we were bumping on the rocks outlying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

The morning of the 5th found Harrison near Arnold's Mills, where he overtook and captured two gunboats and some bateaux laden with supplies and ammunition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada] Reference

En outre, les embarcations en bois utilises actuellement vent souvent si lourdes que des bateaux en ferrociment pouvraient tre d'un poids quivalent ou mme infrieur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 13] Reference

The bateaux were set up and waiting at the head of the rollways.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest] Reference

Oswego, twelve bateaux in all, and I took them through the falls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fort Amity] Reference

Eventually, tour guides in bateaux will ferry visitors up and down the canal for tours.    From Wordnik.com.  [RVABlogs] Reference

The best bateaux and Durhams were made with strong white oak bottoms and light fir sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference

A number of yachts and bateaux spread their snowy sails to ascend the river with the tide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Dog] Reference

These fairly swarmed with men loading and unloading ships and bateaux, and piling and unpiling goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Dog] Reference

A hum of voices and dense sounds rose up from the market of Notre Dame and from the quay where ships and bateaux were moored.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Dog] Reference

The combined strength of this flotilla which was causing such public consternation was nine bateaux, carrying less than sixty men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Union and Democracy] Reference

St Lawrence, and round the Lakes; the modern French-Canadian sailing bateaux; the transatlantic English brigs that still come out to.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference

They have draft-animals that look like introduced Terran carabaos, and a few small sailboats and big canoes and bateaux on the rivers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space Viking] Reference

It disappeared first from the great national highway of the St Lawrence and the Lakes, where the French began using bateaux and sailing craft as early as the seventeenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference