éboulement
English
Alternative forms
- eboulement
Etymology
Borrowed from French éboulement.
Noun
éboulement (plural éboulements)
- A mass of debris or shingle.
- The falling in of the wall of a fortification.
- A landslide or landslip.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:éboulement.
French
Etymology
ébouler (“to crumble; to collapse”) + -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.bul.mɑ̃/
Noun
éboulement m (plural éboulements)
- crumbling (act, instance of crumbling)
- landslide
Further reading
- “éboulement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.