gondolas in English

noun

1

a light flat-bottomed boat used on Venetian canals, having a high point at each end and worked by one oar at the stern.

Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola , the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.

noun

• gondola car
• car

Use "gondolas" in a sentence

1. Another peculiarity is the gondolas’ black “plumage.”

2. The main types of cableway installations covered by Directive 2000/9/EC are funiculars, gondolas, detachable chair lifts, fixed-grip chair lifts, aerial tramways, funitels, combined installations (made of several cableway types, such as those of gondolas and chairlifts) and drag lifts.

3. At least initially, the black color came from the pitch that was used to make gondolas waterproof.

4. Cableway installations are mainly lift systems, such as funicular railways, aerial ropeways, cable cars, gondolas, chairlifts and drag lifts.

5. Cableway a structure for transporting freight and passengers in which a cable stretched between supports is used to move gondolas or chairs.

6. The main types of cableway installations are funiculars, gondolas, chairlifts, aerial tramways, funitels, drag lifts and combined installations consisting of several cableway types.

7. Component parts made of rustproof and refractory alloys, for use in installations operating and high temperature and/or subjected to corrosion, such as pulleys, rails, bases, cups, pots, plugs, retorts, radiant tubes, gondolas, support mesh, baskets, rigs

8. The chimes of Big Ben, the gondolas in front of the Doge’s Palace, the Grand-Place in Brussels, the Acropolis ... an animated tour with visual and sound effects of 350 miniatures and attractions that you won’t find anywhere else.