soucoupe

noun

1. A type of small submarine designed to hold two people.

   Dr. Francis P. Shepard, Professor of Submarine Geology, who has been studying the canyons from the surface for thirty years, remarked: “I learned more in my three dives in the soucoupe.”

Where it comes from

From French soucoupe, ellipsis of soucoupe plongeante (“diving saucer”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry soucoupe (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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