couteau

American  

[koo-toh] / kuˈtoʊ /

noun

• couteaux
  plural

1. a knife, especially a large double-edged one formerly carried as a weapon.

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couteau British  

/ kuːˈtəʊ /

noun

1. a large two-edged knife used formerly as a weapon

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• couteaux
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of couteau

1670–80; < French; Old French coutel < Latin cultellus; see cultellus

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

couteau couteaux

With the couteau croche, the crooked knife of the North, Dick laboured slowly, fashioning with care the long tamarack strips.

From The Silent Places by Stewart Edward White

For the matter of that, Louis, we could cut them with your couteau de chaise.

From Lost in the Backwoods by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

He could say, with a fine fluency, "Ou est le blooming couteau?" or "Donnez-moi le bally fourchette, s'il vous plait, madame."

From Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs

A curiously-formed ridge—a couteau des prairies, on a small scale—traversed the plain from east to west.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

Around his waist was bound a crimson sash for a hunting-belt, in which was stuck a couteau du chasse, with a hilt sparkling with jewels.

From Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea by Jonathon Holt Ingraham

Marmontel says they were often à couteaux tirés; and this, not metaphorically but literally.

From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

When we were all ready to shove off, "Lafont," he said, "are the men ready with their couteaux?"

From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott

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