kiosque

kiosque (plural kiosques)

1. Archaic form of kiosk.
   • 1895, Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow:

     Cafés and restaurants were scattered here and there among the trees, and twice a week military bands from the garrison played in the kiosques on the parapets.

Borrowed from Italian chiosco, from Ottoman Turkish كوشك (köşk), from Persian کوشک (kôšk, “palace, portico”), from Middle Persian kwšk' (kōšk).

• IPA^(key): /kjɔsk/

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kiosque m (plural kiosques)

1. kiosk (enclosed structure)
2. ellipsis of kiosque à musique (“bandstand”); bandstand
3. (nautical) a sail of a submarine

• “kiosque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• kiosque on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• kiosque à musique on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Borrowed from French kiosque.

kiosque m (plural kiosques)

1. (Jersey) kiosk

• kiosque d'lot'tie (“lottery kiosk”)
• kiosque d'téléphône (“telephone box”)