Also means
blood vessel
Usage Note
Vaisseau covers both nautical and anatomical meanings: a vaisseau spatial is a spacecraft, and les vaisseaux sanguins are blood vessels in medical French. The plural vaisseaux follows the common -eau → -eaux pattern. In older literary French, vaisseau was the standard word for a large sailing warship, a usage that persists in historical texts.
Examples
"Le vaisseau a quitté le port à l'aube."
Natural Translation
The vessel left the port at dawn.
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