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hangar (See below) [Fr.; ulterior origin uncertain: see Du Cange, Diez, Littré.] ‖a. |hɑ̃gar|. A covered space, shed, or shelter, esp. for carriages.
1852Thackeray Esmond iii. xiii, Mademoiselle, may we take your coach to town? I saw it in the hangar. 1861tr. Du Chaillu's Equat. Afr. xv. 253 The people gathered..under the immense hangar or covered space. 1886Sheldon tr. Flaubert's Salammbo vii, The rumbling chariot..halted under a wide hangar. b. |ˈhæŋə(r)|. A shed for the accommodation of aircraft or spacecraft.
1902Daily Chron. 31 Oct. 5/3 Mr. Santos Dumont..will construct a hangar in the Bois de Boulogne. 1935H. G. Wells Things to Come ix. 48 Inside an aeroplane hangar. 1962A. Shepard in Into Orbit 97, I tried to avoid moving into Hangar S—our quarters at the Cape—for as long as I could. 1962V. Grissom Ibid. 119 On 1 July the capsule was taken from the hangar to the launching pad to be mated to the Redstone. |