caniveau
French
Etymology
Uncertain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ni.vo/
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Noun
caniveau m (plural caniveaux)
- (on a road) gutter
- 2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:
- on comptait les cadavres dans les caniveaux
- we counted the corpses in the gutters
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See also
- gouttière
Further reading
- “caniveau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.