noun, feminine/ʁad/plural: rades
rade is feminine in French.
harbour
“À faire rougir les putains de la rade[…] je vais t'aimer.” — To the point of making the harbour whores blush […] I'm going to love you.
Inherited from Middle French rade (15th c.), from an Old French *rade, borrowed from Middle English rade, an early form of rode (“a protected place near shore where ships could lie at anchor, harbour" also "a ride, journey”), from Old English rād (“a ride, riding”), from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō (“a ride, riding”). Doublet of raid. See English road for more.