éboulement

English

Alternative forms

• eboulement

Etymology

Borrowed from French éboulement.

Noun

éboulement (plural éboulements)

1. A mass of debris or shingle.
2. The falling in of the wall of a fortification.
3. A landslide or landslip.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:éboulement.

French

Etymology

From ébouler (“to crumble; to collapse”) +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.bul.mɑ̃/

Noun

éboulement m (plural éboulements)

1. crumbling (act, instance of crumbling)
2. landslide

Further reading

• “éboulement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.