masure
French
editEtymology
editFrom Vulgar Latin *mansūra, from Late Latin mānsūra.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmasure f (plural masures)
- dilapidated house, hovel
- (Cauchois dialect, now rare) farmhouse, rural estate
- 1882 January 5, Guy de Maupassant, “Un Réveillon”, in Gil Blas:
- Ils habitaient un lamentable masure, à l’entrée du hameau sur la droite.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Cauchois dialect) orchard
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editFurther reading
edit- “masure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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