charrière

From char +‎ -ière, or from Late Latin (via) carrāria, from Latin carrus. Doublet of carrière (“career”), taken from Old Occitan. Compare Occitan carrièra, Catalan and Spanish carrera, Portuguese carreira, archaic Italian carraia, Romanian cărare.

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.ʁjɛʁ/

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charrière f (plural charrières)

1. a path, way, route, or road, large enough to fit carriages, chariots, carts, wagons, etc.

• carrière
• char
• charrier
• charrette
• chariot

• “charrière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.