lambourde

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French laon (“plank”) and bourde (“beam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃.buʁd/

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Noun

lambourde f (plural lambourdes)

1. (carpentry) joist
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 5, in Madame Bovary‎^[1], second part; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., 1886:

     Il n’était pas achevé d’être bâti, et l’on voyait le ciel à travers les lambourdes de la toiture.

     The building was unfinished; the sky could be seen through the joists of the roofing.

Descendants

• →? Catalan: llamborda

Further reading

• “lambourde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.