digue
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See also: digué
English[edit]
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digue (plural digues)
- (obsolete) A bank; a dike.
- 1672-1679, William Temple, Memoirs
- the great digue near Enchuysen
- 1672-1679, William Temple, Memoirs
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “digue” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French digue, from Old French dike, diic, from Middle Dutch dijc (compare modern Dutch dijk), from Old Dutch diic, dīc, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *dīk, from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz (“pool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, stab, pierce, dig”). More at dig, dike, ditch.
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digue f (plural digues)
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Further reading[edit]
- “digue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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