chaussée

From French chaussée.

chaussée (plural chaussées)

1. Level of soil.
   • 1863, unknown, The Edinburgh Review, Volume CXVII., page #160:

     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.

• “chaussée”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.se/

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From Old French chauciee, chaucie, from Vulgar Latin *calciāta; there is dispute as to whether this is from Latin calx (“lime”) or its homonym, calx (“heel”) (through the verb calciāre (“stamp, tread on”)). Compare English causeway.

chaussée f (plural chaussées)

1. surface (of road)
2. carriageway, roadway
3. causeway
4. (Belgium) highway. Belgian roads which are named in Dutch as steenweg (e.g. Waversesteenweg) are named in Belgian French as chaussée (e.g. Chaussée de Wavre)

• rez-de-chaussée

chaussée f sg

1. feminine singular of the past participle of chausser

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