coteau

• côteau (rare)

From French coteau.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈtoʊ/
• Hyphenation: co‧teau

coteau (plural coteaus or coteaux)

1. (US, Canada) A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys.
   • 2020, Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman, Corsair (2021), page 267:

     It happened when he was a tiny boy standing at the edge of a prairie coteau. From that place, he saw the buffalo trudging out of the horizon on one side of the world.

2. (US, Canada) The side of a valley.

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• côteau (uncommon)

Inherited from Middle French couteau, costeau, from Old French costel. By surface analysis, côte +‎ -eau.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.to/

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coteau m (plural coteaux)

1. hillside

• → English: coteau

• “coteau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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• IPA^(key): [koˈte̯aw]

coteau

1. third-person plural imperfect indicative of coti