chaussée
See also: Chaussee
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
chaussée (plural chaussées)
- Level of soil.
- 1863, unknown, The Edinburgh Review, volume CXVII, page 160:
- Its other angles are at Quatre Bras and Sombreffe, where each of the two roads from Charleroi respectively falls upon the chaussée that forms the base of this triangle.
References edit
- “chaussée”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French chauciee, chaucie, from Vulgar Latin *calciāta; there is dispute as to whether this is from Latin calx (“lime”) or its homonym, calx (“heel”) (through the verb calciāre (“stamp, tread on”)). Compare English causeway.
Noun edit
chaussée f (plural chaussées)
- surface (of road)
- carriageway, roadway
- causeway
- (Belgium) highway. Belgian roads which are named in Dutch as steenweg (e.g. Waversesteenweg) and in Belgian French as chaussée (e.g. Chaussée de Wavre).
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Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
chaussée f sg
Further reading edit
- “chaussée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.