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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from French étiage.
Pronunciation
Noun
estiatge m (plural estiatges)
- low water (lowest stage of watercourse)
2008, Daniel Sánchez Franco, “El riu Llobregati la seva relació amb el territori a l'època romana”, in Universtat Oberta de Catalunya digital respository, page 36:Els mesos calorosos, però, patia estiatge que no vol dir una altra cosa que patia una disminució notable del seu cabal.- In the hot months, it suffered low water, which only means that it suffered a notable reduction of its flow.
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