éboulement

English

Alternative forms

eboulement

Etymology

Borrowed from French éboulement.

Noun

éboulement (plural éboulements)

A mass of debris or shingle.
The falling in of the wall of a fortification.
A landslide or landslip.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:éboulement.

French

Etymology

From ébouler (“to crumble; to collapse”) +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e.bul.mɑ̃/

Noun

éboulement m (plural éboulements)

crumbling (act, instance of crumbling)
landslide

Further reading

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

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