chaussée
Meanings
Noun
1. surface (of road)
2. carriageway, roadway
3. causeway
4. highway. Belgian roads which are named in Dutch as steenweg (e.g. Waversesteenweg) and in Belgian French as chaussée (e.g. Chaussée de Wavre). (Belgium)
Examples5
Les racines des arbres déforment la chaussée.
The tree roots are warping the pavement.
Un arbre tombé obstruait la chaussée.
A fallen tree obstructed the road.
La chaussée est poussiéreuse. Il n'a certainement pas plu hier.
The road is dusty. It cannot have rained yesterday.
« Travaux sur la chaussée. »
"Road under Repair."
Un poids-lourd se tenait au milieu de la chaussée.
A truck was standing in the middle of the road.