abattoir

[ ab-uh-twahr, ab-uh-twahr ]

/ ˈæb əˌtwɑr, ˌæb əˈtwɑr /

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noun

a slaughterhouse.

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Origin of abattoir

1810–20; <French, equivalent to abatt(re) to slaughter (see abate) + -oir-ory²

Words nearby abattoir

abatis, abat-jour, abator, abattage, A battery, abattoir, abaxial, abaya, abb, Abba, abbacy

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How to use abattoir in a sentence

Germany’s largest pork plant was shuttered for a month this summer after more than 1,000 workers tested positive for Covid-19, and additional abattoirs also faced temporary closures from outbreaks.
Europe is on high alert after a deadly swine virus emerges in Germany|Bernhard Warner|September 10, 2020|Fortune
Such an abattoir would never be permitted to continue in the United States, or indeed the developed (and white) world.
Ebola and America’s Childish Narcissism|Michael Tomasky|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A few weeks later the monks laid siege to a Muslim-owned abattoir in Colombo to halt the slaughter of cattle.
What Intolerant Buddhist Monks Are Doing to Sri Lanka|Kapil Komireddi|April 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The abattoir was being used as a distribution plant for the meat of cattle slaughtered outside the city.
What Intolerant Buddhist Monks Are Doing to Sri Lanka|Kapil Komireddi|April 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST

A view down into the wild, Art Deco abattoir now called the 1933 Center in Shanghai.
A Slaughterhouse with Style|Blake Gopnik|October 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST
And there is the master of our largest and goriest abattoir.
The Main Chance|Meredith Nicholson
It was only a scratch and he had been knocked down like a beef in an abattoir by an unseen enemy, on whom he could not lay hands!
The Last Shot|Frederick Palmer
Have you ever seen a herd of cattle being driven to abattoir on a fine May morning?
One Man's Initiation--1917|John Dos Passos
Ay—and the abattoir is far, though its perfume is nigh; it is thrice a hundred yards from hence.
Kentucky in American Letters, v. 1 of 2|John Wilson Townsend
Probably it would be hung up in some abattoir, where oxen are driven in at one end, and tinned meat taken out at the other.
Thorley Weir|E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

British Dictionary definitions for abattoir

abattoir

/ (ˈæbəˌtwɑː) /

noun

another name for slaughterhouse

Word Origin for abattoir

C19: French, from abattre to fell

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