débouché
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French débouché.
Noun edit
débouché (plural débouchés)
- (archaic) An exit or outlet.
- (archaic, by extension) A market for goods.
- The Century
- The débouchés were ordered widened to afford easy egress.
- The Century
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “débouché”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
débouché m (plural débouchés)
Participle edit
débouché (feminine débouchée, masculine plural débouchés, feminine plural débouchées)
Further reading edit
- “débouché”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Louisiana Creole edit
Etymology edit
From French déboucher (“to unplug”).
Verb edit
débouché
- to unplug
References edit
- Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales