ravitaillement
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French
Etymology
From ravitailler + -ment.
Pronunciation
Noun
ravitaillement m (plural ravitaillements)
- supplies
- Synonyms: approvisionnement, provisions
- 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter IX, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 90; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:
- [...] il résussit finalement, le 12 juillet 1555, à embarquer six cents personnes sur deux navires : mélange de pionniers représentant tous les corps d’état et de criminels tirés des prisons. Il n’oubliait que les femmes et le ravitaillement.
- — he finally succeeded on July 12th, 1555, in getting six hundred people on board two boats; they were a motley collection of pioneers representing all parts of the community, as well as criminals fresh from prison. He had overlooked only two items: women and supplies.
Further reading
- “ravitaillement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.