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‖ trottoir|trɔtwar|
[F. (16th c.), f. trotter to trot + -oir, L. -ōrium.]
A paved footway on each side of a street; a pavement. Also attrib.
1792A. Young Trav. France I. 150 The streets..are wide, and very well paved, with the addition, uncommon in France, of trotoirs. 1804Edinb. Rev. Jan. 337 A neat trottoir of flat stones runs before the doors. 1828H. Best Italy as it is 88 Milan is well paved, though there are no trottoirs, or foot passengers' pavements. 1832F. Trollope Dom. Manners Amer. xxx. (1839) 293 The trottoir paving, in most of the streets, is extremely good, being of large flag stones, very superior to the bricks of Philadelphia. 1864G. M. Musgrave Ten Days Fr. Parsonage I. i. 22 Water-carts..irrigating..the splashed..pedestrians on the trottoir.
Hence trottoired a., furnished with a trottoir.
1858Mayhew Upper Rhine iv. (1860) 185 The streets..are mostly broad and trottoired. |