rigole

rigole (plural rigoles)

1. Alternative form of regal (“type of organ”).

• glorie, logier

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.ɡɔl/

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Inherited from Old French regol, from Middle Dutch regel (“row”), from Latin rēgula (“straight line”). Doublet of rail, règle, reille, and rille.

rigole f (plural rigoles)

1. (agriculture) furrow, channel (small trench cut in the soil or rock for irrigation or for planting seeds)
2. (geography) groove, fissure, hollow (naturally occurring depression or furrow, often due to a meteorological event)
3. (figurative) furrow (deep wrinkle, usually in the face)
4. rivulet, streamlet

rigole

1. inflection of rigoler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• gloire