écore

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French escore, from Middle Dutch schore (“shore”).

Noun

écore f (plural écores)

(Louisiana) bank, shore, escarpment
- 1988, “J'ai marié un ouvrier”, in Allons à Lafayette, performed by BeauSoleil:
  O viens-t’en donc, c’est avec moi / Dessus l’écore du Tennessee.
  Oh, come away with me / On the banks of the Tennessee.
Alternative form of accore

References

Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)

Further reading

“écore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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