coupure

French, from couper (“to cut”).

• IPA^(key): /kuːˈpjʊɚ/

coupure (plural coupures)

1. (fortification) A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.
   • 1860, John Thomas Hyde, Elementary Principles of Fortification:

     It will be observed here, that the coupure is not cut through the scarp revetment of the face of the bastion, although it is necessary for it to go through the thickness of the parapet

• “coupure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From couper +‎ -ure.

• IPA^(key): /ku.pyʁ/

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coupure f (plural coupures)

1. the act or result of cutting; a cut
2. interruption
3. power cut, blackout
4. cutting, cut out, clipping

   coupure de presse ― newspaper cutting, newspaper clipping

5. bill, a piece of paper money

• coupure de courant

• → Bulgarian: купю́ра (kupjúra)
• → Russian: купю́ра (kupjúra)
• → Turkish: küpür
• → Ukrainian: купю́ра (kupjúra)

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