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French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French repositoire, borrowed from Latin repositōrium.
Noun
repositoire m (plural repositoires)
- repository, storage
- ciborium
1841, George-August Matile, Musée historique de Neuchâtel et Valangin, volume 3, Neuchâtel, page 143:Le bras de monseigneur Saint Blaise portant un petit repositoire d'argent dans lequel est l'ongle du doigt du dit saint
Un petit repositoire tout d'argent.- The arm of monseigneur Saint Blaise carrying a small repository of silver in which is the fingernail of the said saint.
A small repository all of silver.
Middle French
Etymology
From Latin repositōrium.
Noun
repositoire m (plural repositoires)
- repository, storage
- ciborium
References
- repositoire on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (repositoire)