trottoir

Borrowed from French trottoir.

• IPA^(key): /tɹɒtˈwɑː(ɹ)/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /tɹɒtˈwɔː(ɹ)/[1]

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

trottoir (plural trottoirs)

1. (archaic) A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.

   Synonyms: (American English) sidewalk, (British English) pavement, (Australia, New Zealand and India) footpath

   • 1869, William Maxwell Blackburn, Admiral Coligny, and the Rise of the Huguenots:

     Head-less bodies were trailed along the trottoirs.

• “trottoir”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from French trottoir.

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trottoir n (plural trottoirs, diminutive trottoirtje n)

1. sidewalk (US), pavement (UK), footpath (Australia, India, New Zealand)

   Synonym: stoep

• → Indonesian: trotoar
• → Petjo: tattowaar

From trotter +‎ -oir.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ.twaʁ/

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trottoir m (plural trottoirs)

1. sidewalk, pavement, footpath (paved path located at the side of a road for the use of pedestrians)

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