débris

See also: debris

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French débris.

Noun

débris (countable and uncountable, plural débris)

1. (dated) Alternative spelling of debris
   • 1898, Archibald John Little, Through the Yang-tse Gorges‎, 3rd edition, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, →OCLC, page 72:

     The gorge widens out slightly after leaving Pa-tung, giving room for piles of gigantic débris from the neighbouring mountains to obstruct the river and create numerous small rapids, which we surmount in the usual painful manner. The country is wild and desolate-looking in the extreme, and well explains the poverty of the Pa-tung district.

Anagrams

• B-sider, Brides, biders, birdes, brides, rebids, sibred

French

Etymology

From Old French debrisier, from des- + brisier (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.bʁi/

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Noun

débris m (plural débris)

1. debris

Descendants

• English: debris

Further reading

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