remblai

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French remblai, from remblayer (“to fill up an excavation, to embank”).

Noun

remblai (countable and uncountable, plural remblais)

1. earth or materials made into a bank after having been excavated

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “remblai”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Ambriel, Mirabel, balmier, lambier, mirable

French

Etymology

From remblayer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.blɛ/

Noun

remblai m (plural remblais)

1. embankment
2. landfill

Related terms

• remblayer

Further reading

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