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compound balloon

noun

Etymology

From compound + balloon.

  1. derived from *bʰel-✻
  2. derived from *bʰoln-✻
  3. derived from *ballô✻
  4. derived from *ballu✻ — “ball”
  5. derived from balle
  6. derived from *palla✻
  7. derived from pallone
  8. derived from ballon
  9. compounded as compound balloon — “compound + balloon”

Definitions

  1. A type of speech bubble that splits dialogue into smaller pieces.

  2. A variation of the hot-air balloon that is lifted by two separate balloons of different…

    A variation of the hot-air balloon that is lifted by two separate balloons of different types, usually suspended one over the other.

    • For the purpose of avoiding the difficulty which attended Blanchard's balloon in keeping her up, the constructed a compound balloon. This was arranged by suspending a fire balloon underneath the hydrogen balloon.
    • I may remark that this had been previously done, for Pilatrede Rozier had lost his life and that of two of his companions in attempting to cross the channel in a compound balloon with the Charliere above and the Montgolfiere below.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA