lambourde
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French laon (“plank”) and bourde (“beam”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lambourde f (plural lambourdes)
- (carpentry) joist
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 5, in Madame Bovary[1], second part; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., 1886:
- Il n’était pas achevé d’être bâti, et l’on voyait le ciel à travers les lambourdes de la toiture.
- The building was unfinished; the sky could be seen through the joists of the roofing.
Descendants[edit]
- →? Catalan: llamborda
Further reading[edit]
- “lambourde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.