Noun: batardeau
| Singular | batardeau |
| Plural | batardeaus |
Sample Sentences
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An experiment was tried during the day upon the dykes of the citadel, which, as before stated, are fed by means of a sluice opposite the Scheldt, and separated from those of the city by a batardeau. [1833, The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine:]
Nouns inflected like batardeau
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French batardeau. See: French Nouns '
batardeau'.