chaussée

See also: Chaussee

English

Etymology

From French chaussée.

Noun

chaussée (plural chaussées)

  1. 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.

References

  • chaussée in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃo.se/
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Etymology 1

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

chaussée f (plural chaussées)

  1. highway; street
  2. surface (of road)
  3. causeway
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Participle

chaussée

  1. feminine singular of the past participle of chausser

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