chaland
Appearance
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old French chalant, the present participle of chaloir.
Alternative forms
[edit]- chalant (now rare)
Noun
[edit]chaland m (plural chalands, feminine chalande)
- regular client, returning client; customer
- 2025 May 27, Hugo Pilache, “Défilé Vuitton : quelles retombées économiques ?”, in La Provence, →ISSN, page 5:
- Pour résumer, le défilé organisé par Louis Vuitton au Palais des papes n'a pas attiré le chaland.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Derived from Ancient Greek χελάνδιον (khelándion, “chelandion, dromon”).
Noun
[edit]chaland m (plural chalands)
- barge (flat-bottomed bulk carrier mainly for inland waters)
- 1886, Émile Zola, L'Œuvre[1], page 254:
- […] des bêtes et des hommes tiraient, s'essoufflaient, sur les gros pavés en pente qui descendaient jusqu'à l'eau, à ce bord de granit où s'amarrait une double rangée de chalands et de péniches; […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
[edit]- → Vietnamese: sà lan
Further reading
[edit]- “chaland”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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