chaussée
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See also: Chaussee
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
chaussée (plural chaussées)
- Level of soil.
- 1863, unknown, The Edinburgh Review, volume CXVII, page 160:
- Its other angles are at Quatre Bras and Sombreffe, where each of the two roads from Charleroi respectively falls upon the chaussée that forms the base of this triangle.
References[edit]
- “chaussée”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old French chauciee, chaucie, from Vulgar Latin *calciāta; there is dispute as to whether this is from Latin calx (“lime”) or its homonym, calx (“heel”) (through the verb calciāre (“stamp, tread on”)). Compare English causeway.
Noun[edit]
chaussée f (plural chaussées)
- surface (of road)
- carriageway, roadway
- causeway
- (Belgium) highway. Belgian roads which are named in Dutch as steenweg (e.g. Waversesteenweg) and in Belgian French as chaussée (e.g. Chaussée de Wavre).
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
chaussée f sg
Further reading[edit]
- “chaussée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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