tôle
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tole"
French
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editDialectal (northern) form of table.
Noun
edittôle f (plural tôles)
- sheet metal
- 1870, Jules Verne, chapter 9, in Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers [Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas][1], Paris: J. Hetzel et Compagnie, part 1:
- Pendant deux heures encore, la colère de Ned Land s’exalta. Le Canadien appelait, il criait, mais en vain. Les murailles de tôle étaient sourdes. Je n’entendais même aucun bruit à l’intérieur de ce bateau, qui semblait mort.
- For two more hours, Ned Land's rage brewed up. The Canadian called out, he yelled, but all was in vain. The metal walls did not hear. I couldn't even hear any noise inside the boat, which seemed dead to the world.
Etymology 2
editAlternative forms.
Noun
edittôle f (plural tôles)
- Alternative form of taule
Further reading
edit- “tôle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.