blocage

English

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Etymology

From French blocage.

Noun

blocage (uncountable)

1. (architecture) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “blocage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French bloccage. By surface analysis, bloquer +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɔ.kaʒ/

Noun

blocage m (plural blocages)

1. block (e.g. of traffic)
2. block (act of physically blocking)
3. block (obstruction)
4. (Internet) block, blocking
5. blockage
6. locking (of brakes)

Related terms

• antiblocage
• géoblocage

Related terms

• bloquer
• déblocage

Further reading

• “blocage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.