sillon

See also: sillón

English

Etymology

French sillon (“furrow”)

Noun

sillon (plural sillons)

1. (military, historical) A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “sillon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Etymology

Old French seillon, from seille +‎ -on, seiller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.jɔ̃/

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Noun

sillon m (plural sillons)

1. (agriculture) furrow
2. groove, fissure

   sillons d’un disque ― record grooves

   le sillon alpin ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (urban studies) corridor

   le sillon lorrain ― the Lorraine corridor

Derived terms

• sillonner

Further reading

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