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

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couteau couteaux

As he returned it, the butts of his two revolvers and the handle of a huge couteau de chasse were plainly visible.

From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Richard Savage

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

There is usually a coup de couteau before the season ends.

From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington

As already said, the topography of the place is peculiar; the lone cottonwood standing on the crest of a couteau de prairie, whose sides slope east and west.

From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid

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

From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart

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

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

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