caniveau
French edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
caniveau m (plural caniveaux)
- (on a road) gutter
- 2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:
- on comptait les cadavres dans les caniveaux
- we counted the corpses in the gutters
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “caniveau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.