basse-courier
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]basse-cour + -ier.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]basse-courier m (plural basse-couriers, feminine basse-courière)
- (dated, agriculture) Someone responsible for the poultry in a farm
Further reading
[edit]- “basse-courier” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “basse-courier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.