corvette

corvette
corvette 1630s, also corvet, from Fr. corvette "small, fast frigate" (15c.), perhaps from M.Du. korver "pursuit ship," or M.L.G. korf meaning both a kind of boat and a basket, or from L. corbita (navis) "slow-sailing ship of burden, grain ship" from corbis "basket" (Gamillscheg is against this). The U.S. sports car was so named September 1952, after the warship, on a suggestion by Myron Scott, employee of Campbell-Ewald, Chevrolet's advertising agency. It. corvetta, Sp. corbeta are French loan-words.

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