contrefort
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
contrefort (plural contreforts)
- Synonym of counterfort (“buttress built against a wall”)
- Synonym of counterfort (“spur of a mountain range”)
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
contrefort m (plural contreforts)
- foothills (hilly land near the base of a mountain range)
- (architecture) buttress
Further reading[edit]
- “contrefort”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.