chaussée

noun

Level of soil.

OriginFrench chaussée →
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Meanings

nounchaussée (plural chaussées)

plural chaussées

  1. Level of soil.

    Its other angles are at Quatre Bras and Sombreffe, where each of the two roads from Charleroi respectively falls upon the chaussée that forms the base of this triangle.

    1863, unknown, The Edinburgh Review, volume CXVII, page 160

Origin

  1. Frenchchaussée
  2. Englishchaussée

From French chaussée.

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Chicago

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