garde-côte
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French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]garde-côte m or f by sense (plural garde-côtes)
- coast guard (maritime law enforcement)
- 2015 October 31, “Migrants : Allemagne restreint les accès à sa frontière avec Autriche”, in Le Monde[1]:
- Par ailleurs, quatre enfants syriens âgés d’un à quatre ans ont été repêchés morts dans les eaux turques par les garde-côtes, qui ont sauvé 19 passagers eux aussi en route pour Lesbos, selon l’agence de presse Dogan.
- Furthermore, four Syrian children aged between one and four were found dead in Turkish waters by the coast guard, who also saved 19 passengers en route to Lesbos, according to the Dogan News Agency.
Descendants
[edit]- Haitian Creole: gadkòt
Further reading
[edit]- “garde-côte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French garde-côte.
Noun
[edit]garde-côte m or f (plural garde-côtes)
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