échalas
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Alteration of Old French escharat, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *Caracium, from Ancient Greek χάραξ (khárax, “reed”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]échalas m (invariable)
- (horticulture) stake, pole (to support plants etc.)
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Quand Charles, après être monté dire adieu au père Rouault, rentra dans la salle avant de partir, il la trouva debout, le front contre la fenêtre, et qui regardait dans le jardin, où les échalas des haricots avaient été renversés par le vent. Elle se retourna.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (colloquial) beanpole (thin person)
- Synonym: asperge
Further reading
[edit]- “échalas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]échalas
- second-person singular imperative of echar combined with las
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