barreau
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
barreau m (plural barreaux)
- metal bar (of a jail cell, cage etc.)
- 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné:
- Ils m’ont amené dans une cellule où il n’y a que les quatre murs, avec beaucoup de barreaux à la fenêtre et beaucoup de verrous à la porte, cela va sans dire.
- They brought me to a cell where all there was was the four walls, with the window heavily barred and heavily locked, that goes without saying.
- rung (of ladder)
- spindle (of chair)
- (law) bar (place where the participants in a trial stand)
- (law) bar (profession of lawyers)
Further reading edit
- “barreau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.