Meanings
plural navettes
- A shuttle bus in France.
To catch the Roissybus from Terminal 1, take the navette from door 22 (line 2)[…]
2009, Kiratiana Freelon, Kiratiana's Travel Guide to Black Paris, page 451 more example
To address this, we explore the case of the navettes, informal vans that operate in the unlikely and unfriendly formal transport landscape of Brussels.
2020, Wojciech Kębłowski, Moving in informal circles in the global North: An inquiry into the navettes in Brussels - obsoleteRapeseed
- A lenticular piece of jewelry.
Origin
- Frenchnavette
- Englishnavette
From French navette. By surface analysis, Latin nav- + -ette.
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navette. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/navette
“navette.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/navette. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “navette,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/navette.
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