claveau

French

Etymology

From Old French clavel, from Vulgar Latin *clavellus (compare Italian chiavello, chiavella), from Latin clavus.

Noun

claveau m (plural claveaux)

(architecture) keystone

Further reading

“claveau” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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