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Pontoon (en irlandais Pont Abhann) est un village situé dans le Comté de Mayo en Irlande.
Le village est situé entre les Lough Conn et Lough Cullin au cœur d'une région très touristique.
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Pontoon — may refer to: * Pontoon (game), the Australian/Malaysian casino game * Pontoon (card game), a chiefly British version of the card game blackjack (or 21) * Pontoon (boat), the flat bottomed boat, or floats used to support a structure on water **… … Wikipedia
Pontoon — Pon*toon , n. [F. ponton (cf. It. pontone), from L. ponto, onis, fr. pons, pontis, a bridge, perhaps originally, a way, path: cf. Gr. ? path, Skr. path, pathi, panthan. Cf. {Punt} a boat.] 1. (Mil.) A wooden flat bottomed boat, a metallic… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
pontoon — (n.) 1670s, from Fr. pontoon, from M.Fr. ponton, from L. pontonem (nom. ponto) flat bottomed boat, from pons bridge. Pontoon bridge is first recorded 1778 … Etymology dictionary
pontoon — Ⅰ. pontoon [1] ► NOUN Brit. ▪ a card game in which players try to acquire cards with a value totalling twenty one. ORIGIN probably an alteration of French vingt et un twenty one . Ⅱ. pontoon [2] ► NOUN 1) a … English terms dictionary
pontoon — ☆ pontoon [päntənpän to͞on′] n. [Fr ponton < L ponto < pons (gen. pontis), a bridge: see PONS] 1. a flat bottomed boat 2. any of a number of these, or of some other floating objects, as hollow cylinders, used as supports for a temporary… … English World dictionary
Pontoon — Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: Die Falschspieler (Gemälde um 1594) Georges de la Tour … Deutsch Wikipedia
pontoon — English has two words pontoon. The earlier, ‘floating structure’ [17], comes via French ponton from Latin pontō ‘bridge made of boats’, a derivative of pōns ‘bridge’. (Pontō, presumably the same word, was also used for a sort of Gaulish boat, and … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
pontoon — English has two words pontoon. The earlier, ‘floating structure’ [17], comes via French ponton from Latin pontō ‘bridge made of boats’, a derivative of pōns ‘bridge’. (Pontō, presumably the same word, was also used for a sort of Gaulish boat, and … Word origins
pontoon — [[t]pɒ̱ntu͟ːn[/t]] pontoons N COUNT A pontoon is a floating platform, often one used to support a bridge. ...a pontoon bridge … English dictionary
pontoon — UK [pɒnˈtuːn] / US [pɑnˈtun] noun Word forms pontoon : singular pontoon plural pontoons 1) [uncountable] British the game of blackjack 2) [countable] an object that supports a floating bridge … English dictionary