caniveau

French

Etymology

Uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ni.vo/

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Noun

caniveau m (plural caniveaux)

1. (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

• gouttière

Further reading

• “caniveau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.