chaussée

Meaning

Noun

1. surface (of road)
2. carriageway, roadway
3. causeway
4. highway. Belgian roads which are named in Dutch as steenweg (e.g. Waversesteenweg) and in Belgian French as chaussée (e.g. Chaussée de Wavre).

Verb

feminine singular of chaussé

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃo.se/

Etymology

From Old French chauciee, chaucie, from Vulgar Latin *calciāta; there is dispute as to whether this is from Latin calx (“lime”) or its homonym, calx (“heel”) (through the verb calciāre (“stamp, tread on”)). Compare English causeway.

Sentences

De nouveau elle envahit la chaussée .

Again it invades the pavement.