kiosque

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English

Noun

kiosque (plural kiosques)

  1. Archaic form of kiosk.
    • 1895, Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow:
      Cafés and restaurants were scattered here and there among the trees, and twice a week military bands from the garrison played in the kiosques on the parapets.

French

kiosque à musique

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian chiosco, from Ottoman Turkish كوشك (köşk), from Persian کوشک (kôšk, “palace, portico”), from Middle Persian kwšk' (kōšk).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kjɔsk/
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Noun

kiosque m (plural kiosques)

  1. kiosk (enclosed structure)
  2. Ellipsis of kiosque à musique (“bandstand”); bandstand
  3. (nautical) a sail of a submarine

Descendants

Further reading

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French kiosque.

Noun

kiosque m (plural kiosques)

  1. (Jersey) kiosk

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