Noun: coteau
| Singular | coteau |
| Plural | coteaus; coteaux |
Sample Sentences
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It happened when he was a tiny boy standing at the edge of a prairie coteau. From that place, he saw the buffalo trudging out of the horizon on one side of the world. [2020, Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman, Corsair (2021), page 267:]
Nouns inflected like coteau
portmanteau,
ponceau,
QSL bureau,
plateau,
nouveau,
flambeau,
damoiseau,
cointreau,
Esquimau,
camaieu,
camayeu,
bordereau,
telebureau,
subbureau,
château,
couteau,
priedieu,
chateau,
chapeau,
fricandeau, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French coteau, from Old French costel, from Latin costa (“rib, side”). See: French Nouns '
coteau', Latin Nouns '
costa'.