ecroulementn.

Etymology: French.

The fall of a mass of rock, a building, etc. Used figuratively; also spec. in Geology.

ΚΠ

1820 H. Matthews Diary of Invalid (1835) 288 Napoleon has so catamaranned the foundations, that more than one écroulement has already taken place.

1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xiii. 163 The great ecroulement of rocks round Daren.

1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxii. 435 I found the phenomena to be similar to many ecroulemens of Alpine tracts.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	ecroulement
释义	ecroulementn. Etymology: French. The fall of a mass of rock, a building, etc. Used figuratively; also spec. in Geology. ΚΠ 1820 H. Matthews Diary of Invalid (1835) 288 Napoleon has so catamaranned the foundations, that more than one écroulement has already taken place. 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xiii. 163 The great ecroulement of rocks round Daren. 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxii. 435 I found the phenomena to be similar to many ecroulemens of Alpine tracts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1820
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