cacolet
See also: caçolet
English
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Etymology
editFrom French cacolet, from Béarnais Occitan cacoulet (“mule chair”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcacolet (plural cacolets)
- An open chair mounted to one side of a pack animal, balanced by another on the other side.
- (medicine, especially historical and military) A stretcher mounted on a pack animal similarly or singly. [1878]
Hyponyms
edit- mule chair (mule-borne chairs); kajawah (camel-borne)
Translations
editA twinned chair mounted on a pack animal
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References
edit- “cacolet, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- Katherine T. Barkley (1990) The Ambulance Exposition Press, →ISBN, 207 pages.
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editFrom Occitan (Béarnais) cacoulet, of uncertain origin.
Noun
editcacolet m (plural cacolets)
Further reading
edit- “cacolet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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