déblai
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]déblai
- The cavity from which the earth for a fortification's parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “déblai”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Deverbal of déblayer. From Middle French desblay, from Old French desblée, ultimately from Old French blet (“wheat”), from Frankish *blad.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]déblai m (plural déblais)
- clearing and levelling (of land)
- excavation
Further reading
[edit]- “déblai”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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