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/ku.lwaʁ/
Translation
corridor
Word origin
From couler ('to flow, to run'), from Latin colare ('to strain, to filter'), with the tool-and-place suffix -oir. The word first named a channel that something ran along, then the passage people walk down.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- couler
- English cognates
- colander, percolate
Grammar
Examples
au .
The toilets are at the end of the corridor.
.
He had been waiting in the corridor for an hour.
courez l'.
Do not run in the school corridors.
.
Our room opens onto a long dark corridor.
étagères .
They put up shelves all along the corridor.
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