clairière
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editclairière f (plural clairières)
- glade, clearing (an area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees)
- 1874, Jules Verne, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, sourced from [1]:
- Nous occupions, en cet endroit. Le centre d’une vaste clairière, entourée par les hautes arborisations de la forêt sous-marine.
- At this locality we stood in the center of a huge clearing surrounded by the tall tree forms of this underwater forest.
Further reading
edit- “clairière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.