rigole
See also: rigolé
English edit
Noun edit
rigole (plural rigoles)
- Alternative form of regal (“type of organ”)
Anagrams edit
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Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old French regol, from Middle Dutch regel (“row”), from Latin rēgula (“straight line”).
Noun edit
rigole f (plural rigoles)
- (agriculture) furrow, channel (small trench cut in the soil or rock for irrigation or for planting seeds)
- (geography) groove, fissure, hollow (naturally occurring depression or furrow, often due to a meteorological event)
- (figurative) furrow (deep wrinkle, usually in the face)
- rivulet, streamlet
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
rigole
- inflection of rigoler:
Further reading edit
- “rigole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.