lambourde

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French laon (“plank”) and bourde (“beam”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɑ̃.buʁd/
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Noun

lambourde f (plural lambourdes)

(carpentry) joist
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 5, in Madame Bovary‎, 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

→? Catalan: llamborda

Further reading

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

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