causeway
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Étymologie
- Du moyen anglais cauceweye, composé de l’anglo-normand cauce, lui-même du vieux-latin calciata via, « route pavée », et de weye, « chemin ».
Nom commun
| Singulier | Pluriel |
|---|---|
| causeway \Prononciation ?\ |
causeways \Prononciation ?\ |
causeway \ˈkɔzˌweɪ\
- Chaussée.
Curling into the lake, in the shape of a foetus, was an island, linked to the shore by a thin umbilical causeway.
— (Robert Harris, Fatherland, 1992)Evidence of construction techniques for timber walkways has been preserved at Flag Fen in Cambridgeshire (TL 225 989), where 60,000 posts and 250,000 horizontal timbers were shaped into a 1km-long ritual causeway that crossed a marshy fen.
— (Mary-Ann Ochota, Hidden Histories : A Spotter’s Guide to the British Landscape, Frances Lincoln, 2018, page 166)
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Prononciation
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