chaussée

English

Etymology

From French chaussée.

Noun

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.

References

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.se/

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Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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) and in Belgian French as chaussée (e.g. Chaussée de Wavre).

Derived terms

• rez-de-chaussée

Descendants

Etymology 2

Participle

chaussée f sg

1. feminine singular of chaussé

Further reading

• “chaussée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.