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French
Noun
escopateur m (plural escopateurs)
- (Rennes, Brittany) a garbage man/bin man
1845, Jean Ogée, Dictionnaire historique et géographique de la province de Bretagne, volume 2, page 532:escopateur qui était chargé, aux gages de 5 livres par an, en 1477, de la répurgation des immondices déposés dans les rues et places publiques- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1880, Albert Babeau, La Ville sous l’Ancien Régime, volume I, book II, chapter V, page 224:
C’est aussi lui [le corps de Ville] qui désigne les titulaires chargés de quelques emplois bizarres qui disparurent presque tous au xviiie siècle ; tels […] à Rennes, le réveilleur et l’escopateur- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Middle French
Noun
escopateur m (plural escopateurs)
- (Rennes) streetcleaner
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