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abattoir

[ab-uh-twahr, ab-uh-twahr] Example Sentences Origin

ab·at·toir

[ab-uh-twahr, ab-uh-twahr]
noun
a slaughterhouse.

Origin:
1810–20; < French, equivalent to abatt(re) to slaughter (see abate) + -oir -ory2
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
Example Sentences
  • War work has made more than a few pacifists, in the way a visit to the abattoir makes vegetarians.
  • The abattoir and the cattle truck are secret places safely hidden from the meat-eater's gaze and the child's story book.
  • Deer composting is not the grotesque, open-air abattoir you might expect.
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abattoir (ˈæbəˌtwɑː)
 
n
another name for slaughterhouse
 
[C19: French, from abattre to fell]

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Word Origin & History

abattoir
"slaughterhouse for cows," 1820, from Fr. abattre "to beat down" (see abate).
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