caveau
French
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Noun
caveau m (plural caveaux)
Sous cette chapelle était le caveau de telle famille.
- Under this chapel is the crypt of the family.
Ils creusèrent un trou d’1 m.2 [sic] de profondeur et de 6 mètres de large, érigèrent des murs de rondins d’1 m.2 au-dessus du sol et utilisèrent des mottes de terre pour le toit. Ce concept fut connu sous le nom de caveau.http://www.abheritage.ca/francophone/fr/people/communities_legal.html
- They dug a hole of 1 meter by 2 to a depth of 6 meters, erected log walls 1 to 2 meters above the ground and used clods of earth for the roof. This concept was known as a caveau.
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References
- “caveau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Italian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French caveau.
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Noun
caveau m (uncountable)
- vault (secure, enclosed area used to store valuables).
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