remblai

Borrowed from French remblai, from remblayer (“to fill up an excavation, to embank”).

remblai (countable and uncountable, plural remblais)

1. (dated, fortification, mining) Earth or materials made into an embankment after excavation.

• “remblai”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Ambriel, Mirabel, balmier, lambier, mirable

From remblayer.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.blɛ/

remblai m (plural remblais)

1. embankment
2. landfill

• remblayer

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