"unpatriotic jargon," such as "trottoir" for sidewalk or "serviette" for napkin, as was the bourgeois custom in Leipzig, a cosmopolitan city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Center for Lutheran Theology and Public Life] Reference

Side-walk ... walking fast ... trotting along ... trottoir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference

The story was the same, albeit the trottoir was different.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

The story was the same, albeit the trottoir was different.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

The children stumbled on and off the trottoir like little drunken matelots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Words in a French Life] Reference

There is no trottoir, and as you ride through the streets you mingle with the people on foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eothen] Reference

He went back to scrubbing the brick trottoir with a broom, a pail of sudsy water to his side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Words in a French Life] Reference

I should démènage (to the back of the bar?) but this particular table has a view of le trottoir, where passersby catch my eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

French Vocabulary une prestation = service offered une retouche = alteration le panier = basket le trottoir = pavement, sidewalk.    From Wordnik.com.  [machine à coudre - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Plops! on chairs which line the shoulder of the trottoir?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alps] Reference

Plops! on chairs which line the shoulder of the trottoir?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cafés] Reference

But this particular table has a view of le trottoir, where passersby catch my eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [souci - French Word-A-Day] Reference

The trottoir paving, in most of the streets, is extremely good, being of large flag stones, very superior to the bricks of Philadelphia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Manners of the Americans] Reference

He could be that balayeur des rues, or that gendarme, or even thatfille de trottoir in disguise, "I said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cat & Mouse]

La librairie (f)= bookshop; le trottoir (m).    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

« trottoir |.    From Wordnik.com.  [voisin - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Laquo; trottoir.    From Wordnik.com.  [voisin - French Word-A-Day] Reference