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

See also

gouttière

Further reading

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

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