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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French laon (“plank”) and bourde (“beam”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lambourde f (plural lambourdes)
- (carpentry) joist
1857, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 5, in Madame Bovary, second part; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., 1886:Il n’était pas achevé d’être bâti, et l’on voyait le ciel à travers les lambourdes de la toiture.- The building was unfinished; the sky could be seen through the joists of the roofing.
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