escabeau

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French scabel, escabel, borrowed from Latin scabellum. Compare the inherited doublet écheveau.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛs.ka.bo/
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Noun

escabeau m (plural escabeaux)

  1. footstool
    • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
      Comme il y avait longtemps qu'elle n'était plus auprès de lui, sur l'escabeau, dans la cheminée, quand elle faisait brûler le bout d'un bâton à la grande flamme des joncs marins qui pétillaient!…
      How long since she had been with him, sitting on the footstool in the chimney-corner, where she used to burn the end of a bit of wood in the great flame of the sea-sedges!
  2. step ladder

Descendants

  • → Dutch: schabouw

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