contrefort
English edit
Noun edit
contrefort (plural contreforts)
- Synonym of counterfort (“buttress built against a wall”)
- Synonym of counterfort (“spur of a mountain range”)
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
contrefort m (plural contreforts)
- foothills (hilly land near the base of a mountain range)
- (architecture) buttress
Further reading edit
- “contrefort”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.