carreau

French

noun
Definitions
  • square (as a geometrical shape)
  • (card games) diamonds (card suit)
  • tile (compare with carrelage, meaning tiles or tiling)
  • windowpane
  • bolt (crossbow projectile)
  • (Haiti) a unit of land, 100 square pas (pas) (where a pas is 3.5 French feet or pieds (pieds)): roughly 1.3 hectares or 3.2 acres
  • (Louisiana) plot, patch of land, of cloth

Etymology

Inherited from Old French quarel inherited from Latin *quadrellus, quadrus (square, four).

Origin

Latin

quadrus

Gloss

square, four

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Person/Thing

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