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piste

  [peest]
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–noun
1. a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
2. (in fencing) a regulation-size strip, usually 2 meters wide and 14 meters long, on which fencers compete.
Origin:
1720–30; < F: animal track < It pista, pesta, n. deriv. of pestare to pound, crush < VL, freq. of L pī(n)sere; cf. pestle
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piste   (pēst)   
n.  

  1. A ski trail densely packed with snow.

  2. An unpaved trail or path, especially in mountainous terrain.


[French, from Italian pista, from obsolete pistare, to trample down, variant of pestare; see piston.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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