chaussée
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See also: Chaussee
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English[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.
- 1863, unknown, The Edinburgh Review, Volume CXVII., page #160:
References[edit]
- chaussée in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Inflected forms.
Participle[edit]
chaussée
- feminine singular of the past participle of chausser
External links[edit]
- “chaussée” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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