Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A footway on each side of a street; a sidewalk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Footpath; pavement; sidewalk.
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- noun
footpath ;pavement ;sidewalk
Etymologies
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Examples
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"unpatriotic jargon," such as "trottoir" for sidewalk or "serviette" for napkin, as was the bourgeois custom in Leipzig, a cosmopolitan city.
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In the corner, a dressmaker's mannequin loomed, its hourglass figure a little more curvy than those belonging to the Parisian woman passing behind me, on the trottoir (I could see their reflections in the shop's window, where my nose now flattened up against the glass).
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Nous faisons silence et, de fait, les deux mamies voisines engagent dans le parler local une conversation d'un trottoir à l'autre.
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Nous faisons silence et, de fait, les deux mamies voisines engagent dans le parler local une conversation d'un trottoir à l'autre.
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French Vocabulary une prestation = service offered une retouche = alteration le panier = basket le trottoir = pavement, sidewalk
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The cars, which line the trottoir, * are packed so closely together that they block our view of what might lie beyond.
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Nous faisons silence et, de fait, les deux mamies voisines engagent dans le parler local une conversation d'un trottoir à l'autre.
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 02: 59 PM une prestation = service offered une retouche = alteration le panier = basket le trottoir = pavement, sidewalk
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The cars, which line the trottoir, * are packed so closely together that they block our view of what might lie beyond.
Braise The Dog 2009
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I should démènage (to the back of the bar?) but this particular table has a view of le trottoir, where passersby catch my eye.
qms commented on the word trottoir
An imam in le vieux territoire
Has issued the following fatwa:
"Attend to mes verbes!
Your chiens to the curb,
And soil not the course of the trottoir."
September 25, 2014