décombres

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See also: décombrés

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.kɔ̃bʁ/
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Noun

décombres m pl (plural only)

  1. rubble, ruins (of a building)
    • 1902, Isabelle Eberhardt, Yasmina:
      Son enfance s’était écoulée là, dans les ruines grises, parmi les décombres et la poussière d’un passé dont elle ignorait tout.
      Her childhood had unfolded here in these grey ruins, amid the rubble and dust of a past of which she knew nothing.

Verb

décombres

  1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of décombrer

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