débris
See also: debris
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French débris.
Noun
débris (countable and uncountable, plural débris)
- Alternative spelling of debris
- 1898, Archibald John Little, Through the Yang-tse Gorges, 3rd edition, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, OCLC 1098571240, page 72:
- The gorge widens out slightly after leaving Pa-tung, giving room for piles of gigantic débris from the neighbouring mountains to obstruct the river and create numerous small rapids, which we surmount in the usual painful manner. The country is wild and desolate-looking in the extreme, and well explains the poverty of the Pa-tung district.
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Anagrams
- B-sider, Brides, biders, birdes, brides, rebids, sibred
French
Etymology
Old French debrisier, from des- + brisier (“to break”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.bʁi/
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Noun
débris m (plural débris)
- debris
Descendants
- English: debris
Further reading
- “débris”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.