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astronautte

noun

Etymology

Blend of astronaut + -ette (feminine suffix).

Definitions

  1. A female astronaut.

    • In 1960 Jerrie Cobb was the first woman chosen (from a dozen tested) to qualify for NASA's new astronaut program. Newspapers called her an "astronautte," and "America's answer to the Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for astronautte. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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