tréteau
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French trestel, inherited from Late Latin trānstellum, diminutive of Latin trānstrum beam.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tréteau m (plural tréteaux)
- trestle (a folding or fixed set of legs used to support a table-top or planks)
- sawhorse
- (in the plural, metonymically) stage, theater
- 2024 July 15, Romain Cantenot, “Ma nouvelle vie d'artiste : la joie des reconvertis du Festival”, in La Provence, page 5:
- Et ensuite parce que le récit de cette carrière passée des plateaux de Marc Dorcel (célèbre producteur de films X) aux tréteaux d’Avignon, l’emporte sur tout autre centre d’intérêt.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “tréteau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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