abreuvoir

Borrowed from French abreuvoir (“a watering place”).

• IPA^(key): /əbɹuːˈvwɑː(ɹ)/

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abreuvoir (plural abreuvoirs)

1. A cold water drinking fountain (for people) typically found in a public location; more generally, any fountain or water source (including for animals like birds, horses etc).
2. (obsolete, masonry) The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar.

From abreuver +‎ -oir.

• IPA^(key): /a.bʁœ.vwaʁ/

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abreuvoir m (plural abreuvoirs)

1. a watering hole or place for animals
2. (Canada, proscribed) a drinking fountain

   Synonym: (mostly Europe) fontaine

• abreuvoir à mouches
• borne-abreuvoir

• → English: abreuvoir

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

• (Jersey) IPA^(key): /abrəvwar/

abreuvoir m (plural abreuvoirs)

1. (Jersey) a watering place.

• Spence, N.C.W. (1960). Glossary of Jersey-French. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 39-40.