Etymology

bucket seat

Today it means: A form-fitting seat for one passenger in automobiles, aircraft, and other such modes of transport. Full definition →

French baquet
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The story

  1. French · derived frombaquet“cockpit”
  2. English todaybucket seat

Apparently from French baquet (“cockpit”), from early twentieth-century French aircraft.

Words from the same roots

Frenchbaquet all →

backet

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