lambourde
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French laon (“plank”) and bourde (“beam”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlambourde f (plural lambourdes)
- (carpentry) joist
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 5, in Madame Bovary[1], second part; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., 1886:
- Il n’était pas achevé d’être bâti, et l’on voyait le ciel à travers les lambourdes de la toiture.
- The building was unfinished; the sky could be seen through the joists of the roofing.
Descendants
edit- →? Catalan: llamborda
Further reading
edit- “lambourde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.