avietten.
/eɪvɪˈɛt/ An engineless aeroplane or glider. (Disused.)
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1912 Daily News 1 June 1/4 It is called an aviette competition, an aviette being a flying machine propelled by muscular force alone.
1923 Westm. Gaz. 7 Apr. The ‘Aviette’, as the new glider with an auxiliary motor threatens to call itself.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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