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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Etymology

Origin of couteau

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

Example Sentences

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 White, Stewart Edward

This was crossed by another shoulder belt, to which was hung a hunting knife, or couteau de chasse.

From Quentin Durward by Scott, Walter, Sir

The so called "Roman swords" are "anelaces," and a couteau de chasse of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

From Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850 by Various

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

From Lost in the Backwoods by Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland

Among these was a couteau de chasse, with a double-barrelled pistol in a handle of jade. 

From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Lang, Andrew