décombres
See also: décombrés
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.kɔ̃bʁ/
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Noun
décombres m pl (plural only)
- rubble, ruins (of a building)
- 1902, Isabelle Eberhardt, Yasmina:
- Son enfance s’était écoulée là, dans les ruines grises, parmi les décombres et la poussière d’un passé dont elle ignorait tout.
- Her childhood had unfolded here in these grey ruins, amid the rubble and dust of a past of which she knew nothing.
Further reading
- “décombres”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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