fossé

== English == === Etymology === From French fossé. === Noun === fossé (plural fossés) (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) A fosse or ditch. [17th–19th c.] 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 165: The Major then went with me and Euphemia (Victoria staying at the inn) and showed us what is called the Ditch, being the fossé and ruinous banks of the old castle […] . == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French fossé, from Old French fossé, from Late Latin fossātum, from Latin fossō. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fɔ.se/ === Noun === fossé m (plural fossés) ditch; trench; moat === Further reading === “fossé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Gallo == === Etymology === From Old French fossé, from Late Latin fossātum, from Latin fossō. === Noun === fossé ? (plural fossés) slope, embankment == Middle French == === Etymology === From Old French fossé, from Late Latin fossātum, from Latin fossō. === Noun === fossé m (plural fossez) trench; ditch ==== Descendants ==== French: fossé