couteau

American  

[koo-toh] / kuˈtoʊ /

noun

plural

couteaux

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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Etymology

Origin of couteau

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

Example Sentences

Des blessés... 15j après attaque au couteau au Consulat, la France encore visée !?

From BBC

The program is limited to lands in southwestern North Dakota and the Missouri Couteau.

From Washington Times

Je viens de voir M. Levy, victime d'une attaque au couteau.

From Time

Lightly he tripped up the steps of the scaffold, and then, after a deliberate survey of the crowd below and all around, he thundered forth, tonna, the following lines—a parody, or rather a personal appropriation, of the Marseillaise: "Allons, pauvre victime, Ton jour de mort est arriv�: Contre toi de la tyrannie Le couteau sanglant est lev�!"

From Project Gutenberg

One of them, whose brain was less heated than the rest, had removed his couteau de chasse from its sheath, and was expostulating with him; but he was evidently not to be appeased without a scapegoat, for he kept pointing angrily at a broken bust of William III. which my lady had crowned with laurel that very day.

From Project Gutenberg