tailloir
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tailloir m (plural tailloirs)
- abacus (uppermost member of the capital of a column)
Further reading edit
- “tailloir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French tailleor, tailleoir, equivalent to tailler (“to cut”) + -oir.
Noun edit
tailloir m (plural tailloirs)