English

Noun

chaussée ‎(plural chaussées)

1. Level of soil.
   • 1863, unknown, The Edinburgh Review, Volume CXVII., page #160:

     Its other angles are at Quatre Bras and Sombreffe, where each of the two roads from Charleroi respectively falls upon the chaussée that forms the base of this triangle.

References

• chaussée in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃose/

Etymology 1

From Old French chauciee, chaucie, from Vulgar Latin *calciāta; there is dispute as to whether this is from Latin calx ‎(“lime”) or its homonym, calx ‎(“heel”) (through the verb calciāre ‎(“stamp, tread on”)). Compare English causeway.

Noun

chaussée f ‎(plural chaussées)

1. highway; street
2. surface (of road)
3. causeway

Derived terms

• rez-de-chaussée

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Participle

chaussée

1. feminine singular of the past participle of chausser