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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
abattoir
 
SYLLABICATION:ab·at·toir
PRONUNCIATION:  b-twär
NOUN:1. A slaughterhouse. 2. Something likened to a slaughterhouse: “The hand of God and mankind's self-inflicted blows seem equally heavy … giving a strong cumulative impression of the world as an abattoir” (Manchester Guardian Weekly).
ETYMOLOGY:French, from abattre, to strike down, from Old French. See abate.
 
 
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