From the French for bottom of the bag, what is the name for a dead end street, usually circular at the end?
"a new coinage. (""No outlet"" is another alternative name used on street signs.) The expression ""cul-de-sac"" comes from French, where it originally meant ""bottom of the sack"". It was first used in English in anatomy (since 1738). It was used for dead-end streets since 1800 in English (since the 14th century in French). The often heard erroneous folk etymology ""arse/ass [buttocks] of the sack"" is based on the modern meaning of ""cul"" in French, Catalan, and Occitan, but ""cul"" doesn't have that meaning in ""cul-de-sac"", which is still used to refer to dead ends in modern French although the terms"
"destiny and experience for both Bilbo and Frodo that begins at their home Bag End. According to Tom Shippey, the name Bag End is a direct translation of French ""cul-de-sac"" meaning a dead end or a road with only one outlet. The journeys of Bilbo and Frodo has been interpreted as such a confined road as they both start and end their respective adventures in Bag End. According to Don D. Elgin, ""A Walking Song"" is ""a song about the roads that go ever on until they return to at last to the familiar things they have always known."" Another"
"Finistère Finistère (; ) is a department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. The present department consists of the historical region of Léon and parts of Cornouaille and Trégor, both parts of pre-revolutionary Brittany. The name ""Finistère"" derives from the Latin ""Finis Terræ"", meaning ""end of the earth."" In England, a similar area is called Land's End. The Breton name for Finistère, ""Penn ar Bed,"" translates as ""Head/End of the World"" and is similar to the Cornish name for Land's End, ""Pedn-an-Wlas"" (Head/End of the country). Finistère is not to be confused with Finisterre in Galicia, Spain, which"
"Cirque A cirque (French, from the Latin word ""circus"") is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic , meaning a pot or cauldron) and cwm (, ). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluvial erosion. The concave shape of a glacial cirque is open on the downhill side, while the cupped section is generally steep. Cliff-like slopes, down which ice and glaciated debris combine and converge, form the three or more higher sides. The floor of the cirque ends up bowl-shaped as it is the"
"""Not a Through Street"" or ""Not a Through Road"" to mark roads or road systems that end in culs-de-sac. More recently, ""No Outlet"" has been shown on some signs as well (an example being Meyers Avenue south of Eureka Street in the Pine Hills area). In military parlance, a ""cul-de-sac"" refers to a situation where an army is """"hemmed in on all sides but behind"""". ""Cul-de-sac"" is also used metaphorically to mean a line of thought or action that leads nowhere. In medicine, the expression is used to refer to the recto-uterine pouch, also known as the Pouch of Douglas,"
"Champs-Élysées The Avenue des Champs-Élysées () is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, long and wide, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Place Charles de Gaulle, where the Arc de Triomphe is located. It is known for its theatres, cafés, and luxury shops, for the annual Bastille Day military parade, and as the finish of the Tour de France cycle race. The name is French for the Elysian Fields, the paradise for dead heroes in Greek mythology. Champs-Élysées is widely regarded to be one of the most recognisable avenues in the world. The avenue"
"streets"" and to provide signage at the entry of the streets that make this permeability for pedestrians and cyclists clear. Its application retains the dead end's primary function as a non-through road, but establishes complete pedestrian and bicycle network connectivity. The earliest examples of dead ends were unearthed in the El-Lahun workers' village in Egypt, which was built circa 1885 BC. The village is laid out with straight streets that intersect at right angles; akin to a grid, but irregular. The western part of the excavated village, where the workers lived, shows fifteen narrow and short dead-ends laid out perpendicularly"
"on either side of a wider, straight street; all terminate at the enclosing walls. Dead-end streets also appeared during the classical period of Athens and Rome. The 15th century architect and planner Leon Battista Alberti implies in his writings that dead-end streets may have been used intentionally in antiquity for defense purposes. He writes: ""The Ancients in All Towns were for having some intricate Ways and turn again Streets [i.e.dead-ends or loops], without any Passage through them, that if an Enemy comes into them, he may be at a Loss, and be in Confusion and Suspense; or if he pushes"
"dead-end street (or a dead-end way), a blind alley. Tsin DA.Development of flexible culdoscopy J Am Assoc Gynecol Laparosc. 2000 Aug;7(3):440; author reply 441-2. Culdoscope Culdoscope is an instrument, a kind of endoscope, used to visualize female pelvic organs, introduced through the vagina into the cul-de-sac (which is also called the rectouterine pouch or the pouch of Douglas). The procedure of inserting the culdoscope into the rectouterine pouch is termed culdoscopy. The word culdoscope (and culdoscopy) is derived from the phrase cul-de-sac, which in French literally means ""bottom of a sac"", here referring to a blind pouch or cavity in"
"hollow cylinder for use in making cigarettes."" The common name for the remains of a cigarette after smoking is a cigarette butt. The butt is typically about 30% of the cigarette's original length. It consists of a tissue tube which holds a filter and some remains of tobacco mixed with ash. They are the most numerically frequent litter in the world. Cigarette butts accumulate outside buildings, on parking lots, and streets where they can be transported through storm drains to streams, rivers, and beaches. It is also called a fag-end or dog-end. In a recent trial the city of Vancouver,"
"Slaughter alley Slaughter Alley is an American colloquial name given for sections of highway known for high rates of fatal traffic accidents. Other terms include Blood Alley, Massacre Mountain, Deadliest Highway, Killer Highway (Canada), Route de la Mort (France), and El Camino de la Muerte (Bolivia). This last epithet is particularly attributed to the Yungas Road. Many sections of roads have been known as ""Slaughter Alley"" and local residents may disagree on where ""Slaughter Alley"" actually is or was. Many famous ""Slaughter Alleys"" may no longer exist as they have been replaced by new, safer sections of road. The United"
"Fork end A fork end, fork-end, or forkend is a slot in a bicycle frame or bicycle fork where the axle of a bicycle wheel is attached. A dropout is a type of fork end that allows the rear wheel to be removed without first derailing the chain. Track bicycle frames have track fork ends, on which the opening faces rearwards. Because they do not have dropouts, the chain must be derailed from the sprocket before the rear wheel can be removed from a typical track bike. Some single-speed bicycles intended for street or trail use are also equipped with"
"Tunnel de la mort ""Tunnel de la mort"" ""(Death tunnel)"" is the informal name given, in Montreal, to the notoriously dangerous intersection of Rue d'Iberville and Boulevard Saint-Joseph, at the border of the Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie and Plateau-Mont-Royal boroughs. The intersection owes this name to the fact it was originally surrounded by three railway overpasses immediately to the north, east, and west of it, and by concrete retaining walls on all four corners, severely restricting visibility to approaching motorists. Over 250 serious accidents have been reported at that intersection between 1992 and 2002. The configuration of this intersection makes it nearly"
"on the sixtieth anniversary of the Liberation of Paris. This article was translated largely from corresponding material on . Barrière d’Enfer The Barrière d'Enfer (English: ""Gate of Hell"") is a pair of tollhouses that once served as a gate through the Wall of the Farmers-General (Mur des Fermiers généraux) at the current location of the Place Denfert-Rochereau. The name ""Barrière d'Enfer"" comes from the street ""Rue d'Enfer"" (now called ""Rue Denfert-Rochereau) which leads there after crossing the Rue de Faubourg-Saint Jacques. Some historians think the street was named because it was ""a place of debauchery and robbery"", while others believe"
"design and function of the fogou appears to correlate with a larder use. The name ""souterrain"" comes from the French language (""sous-terrain"" or ""souterrain""), in which it means ""underground passageway"" or refers to subterranea in general. In languages other than English, it is sometimes used to mean ""basement"", especially in warehouses, or semi-basement. Souterrains are underground galleries and, in their early stages, were always associated with a settlement. The galleries were dug out and then lined with stone slabs or wood before being reburied. In cases where they were cut into rock this was not always necessary. They do not"
"Corniche A corniche is a road on the side of a cliff or mountain, with the ground rising on one side and falling away on the other. The word has been absorbed into English from the French term "" or ""road on a ledge"", originally derived from the Italian "", for ""ledge"". Three famed corniche roads of the Côte d'Azur in the French Riviera run between the sea and mountains from Nice eastward toward Menton. They are known as the ' (or ') along the coast, the "" slightly inland, and the """" along the upper cliffs. The ' passes"
"into five sections (or neighbourhoods) known as ""pans"": Auriac, Aygues-Passe, Champnau, Chastel and Claustres. When it was initially named as such, the Pan d'Auriac was mainly a place of settlement, before becoming the ""quartier des pénitents blancs"" [district of the white penitents] who settled there. The Pan d'Aygues-Passe (or Aigues-Passe), meaning ""water that passes"", owes its name to the inclination of its streets, where the water flowed during cleaning. The Pan de Champnau derives its name from ""new field"", and includes what was a new residential area, at north of the city. The Pan de Chastel is the old commercial"
"bought from the funeral home, these regulations require bills to be completely itemized. Coffin A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation. The word took two different paths, cofin in Old French originally meaning basket, became coffin in English and became couffin in modern French which nowadays means a cradle. A distinction is often made between ""coffin"" and ""casket"": the latter is generally understood to denote a four-sided (almost always rectangular) funerary box, while a coffin is usually six-sided. However, coffins having a one-piece side with a curve at the"
"Alley An alley or alleyway is a narrow lane, path, or passageway, often reserved for pedestrians, which usually runs between, behind, or within buildings in the older parts of towns and cities. It is also a rear access or service road (back lane), or a path, walk, or avenue (French allée) in a park or garden. A covered alley or passageway, often with shops, may be called an arcade. The origin of the word alley is late Middle English, from ""walking or passage"", from """" ""go"", from ""to walk"". The word alley is used in two main ways: In older"
"in place. A major Canadian Pacific Railway line uses these two overpasses, making it impossible to demolish them in the short term. According to the Ministère des Transports du Québec, the tunnel should have been completely demolished and reconstructed by July 2010. As of August 2016, the tunnel is still in place. Tunnel de la mort ""Tunnel de la mort"" ""(Death tunnel)"" is the informal name given, in Montreal, to the notoriously dangerous intersection of Rue d'Iberville and Boulevard Saint-Joseph, at the border of the Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie and Plateau-Mont-Royal boroughs. The intersection owes this name to the fact it was"
"Fournaise) and an extinct, deeply eroded volcano (Piton des Neiges). Three cirques have eroded there in a sequence of agglomerated, fragmented rock and volcanic breccia associated with pillow-lavas overlain by more coherent, solid lavas. A common feature for all fluvial-erosion cirques is a terrain which includes erosion resistant upper structures overlying materials which are more easily eroded. Notes Footnotes Cirque A cirque (French, from the Latin word ""circus"") is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic , meaning a pot or cauldron) and cwm (, ). A cirque may also"
"""jardin"". In the English-speaking world, a Parisian ""square"" might be called a vest-pocket park or, simply, a ""green"" (as in ""the village green""). However, the French use of the word, ""square"", presents some small problems in interpretation because native speakers of English use the same word to mean a notable urban crossroads (like Times Square in New York City) or an urban roundabout (like Trafalgar Square in London), where neither grass nor trees nor flowers are present. Such a public space would be called a ""place"" in Paris: as in ""Place de l'Étoile"" or ""Place des Vosges"" or ""Place de"
"Lanterns of the Dead Lanterns of the Dead () are small stone towers found chiefly in the centre and west of France, pierced with small openings at the top, where a light was exhibited at night to indicate the position of a cemetery. These towers were usually circular, with a small entrance in the lower part giving access to the interior, so as to raise the lamps by a pulley to the required height. One of the most perfect in France is that at Cellefrouin (Charente), which consists of a series of eight attached semicircular shafts, raised on a pedestal,"
"he finds himself] at the bottom of the stairs""). In this case, ""the bottom of the stairs"" refers to the architecture of the kind of or mansion to which Diderot had been invited. In such houses, the reception rooms were on the , one floor above the ground floor. To have reached the bottom of the stairs means to have definitively left the gathering. English speakers sometimes call this ""escalator wit"", or ""staircase wit"". Afterwit is a synonym, with forewit as its antonym, and is also sometimes referred to as ""jerk-storing"" after the Seinfeld episode ""The Comeback"". The Yiddish (""staircase"
"as ""Di O Nysos, DON"" (""dondon"" is French slang for ""fat woman""), an otherworldly being who organises funerals for the dead who are still living in her new Citroen 2CV (the make of car she was killed in). The term ""Rose Line"" as the Paris Meridian was given by Dan Brown in his novel ""The Da Vinci Code"" as an alternate name for ""the world's first prime meridian"", identified as the Paris Meridian. Brown's novel also conflates this meridian with a gnomon in the Parisian church of Saint-Sulpice marked in the floor with a brass line, as did the 1967"
"last farm on the route to the forest is called 'The End of the World'. The name of 'Mortagne' in the Vosges département is believed to come from the Celtic name of the river. Earlier spellings have included 'Mortesna', 'Mortennam', and a patois version, 'Moutone'. For many years there was a widespread belief that the name was of Roman origin, related to the name 'Mauritania', being a reference to an encampment of a Moorish regiment during the of the Roman Empire period: this belief is now discredited. Mortagne, Vosges Mortagne is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est"
"Barrière d’Enfer The Barrière d'Enfer (English: ""Gate of Hell"") is a pair of tollhouses that once served as a gate through the Wall of the Farmers-General (Mur des Fermiers généraux) at the current location of the Place Denfert-Rochereau. The name ""Barrière d'Enfer"" comes from the street ""Rue d'Enfer"" (now called ""Rue Denfert-Rochereau) which leads there after crossing the Rue de Faubourg-Saint Jacques. Some historians think the street was named because it was ""a place of debauchery and robbery"", while others believe that the name comes from a corruption of the Latin ""via inferior ""(in contrast with Rue Saint-Jacques, which was"
"deadliest portion of roadway anywhere in France. The section was first included in the Tour de France in 1951 and has since featured 8 times, most recently in 2010. Rampe de Laffrey The Rampe de Laffrey (sometimes called the descente de Laffrey or the côte de Laffrey) is a section of France's Route nationale 85, today called the ""Route Napoléon"", located in the department of Isère between the communes of Laffrey and Vizille, about fifteen kilometers southeast of Grenoble. It is a steep and mostly relatively straight section of road which ends in a sharp turn, and known for the"
"may be paved, or unpaved, and a blind alley is a cul-de-sac. Modern urban developments may also provide a service road to allow for waste collection, or rear access for fire engines and parking. Because of geography, steps (stairs) are the predominant form of alley in hilly cities and towns. This includes Quebec City in Canada and in the United States Pittsburgh (see Steps of Pittsburgh), Cincinnati (see Steps of Cincinnati), Minneapolis, Seattle, and San Francisco as well as Hong Kong, Genoa and Rome. Some alleys are roofed because they are within buildings, such as the traboules of Lyon, or"
"starts and ends with the performer facing forward. Barrel roll turns are commonly used in tap and jazz dancing. Chaînés (French, meaning ""chain"") is a type of two-step turn that is executed repeatedly while the performer travels along a line or curved (often circular or elliptical) path. It is performed quickly on alternating feet and results in a complete rotation for every two steps taken. It is commonly used in ballet, modern, and ballroom dancing. In the first half-turn, one foot is stepped out to the dancer's side in the direction of travel and placed in releve or en pointe;"
"Faubourg Faubourg () is an ancient French term approximating ""suburb"" (now generally termed ""banlieue""). The earliest form is ""Forsbourg"", derived from Latin ""foris"", 'out of', and Vulgar Latin (originally Germanic) ""burgum"", 'town' or 'fortress'. Traditionally, this name was given to an agglomeration forming around a throughway leading outwards from a city gate, and usually took the name of the same thoroughfare within the city. As cities were often located atop hills (for defensive purposes), their outlying communities were frequently lower down. Many faubourgs were located below their towns, and the term ""suburbs"" is derived from this tendency (""sub"" = below;"
"most expensive strips of real estate in the world. Several French monuments are also on the street, including the Arc de Triomphe and the Place de la Concorde. The name is French for Elysian Fields, the place of the blessed dead in Greek mythology. According to a much used description, the Champs-Élysées is ""la plus belle avenue du monde"" (""the most beautiful avenue in the world""). Les Invalides, officially known as ""L'Hôtel national des Invalides"" (The National Residence of the Invalids), is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history"
"Coffin A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation. The word took two different paths, cofin in Old French originally meaning basket, became coffin in English and became couffin in modern French which nowadays means a cradle. A distinction is often made between ""coffin"" and ""casket"": the latter is generally understood to denote a four-sided (almost always rectangular) funerary box, while a coffin is usually six-sided. However, coffins having a one-piece side with a curve at the shoulder instead of a join are more commonly used in the United Kingdom"