Abreuvoir
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An abreuvoir (French: watering place, trough), can mean a basin containing water or a type of masonry joint.[1]
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[edit] Water basin
An abreuvoir is a watering trough, fountain, or other installed basin: originally intended to provide humans and/or animals a rural or urban watering place with fresh drinking water. They were often located at springs. In pre-automobile era cities they were built as equestrian water troughs for horses providing transportation. In contemporary times abreuvoirs are also seen as civic or private fountains in the designed townscape-landscape.
- Translations
- French - Abreuvoir, fontaine
- Spanish - Abrevadero
- English - Watering trough, basin trough fountain
- German - Tränke
[edit] Stonemasonry
In stonemasonry, as an old or obsolete term, an abreuvoir is a joint or interstice between two stones, to be filled with mortar by a stonemason. [1]
[edit] See also
- Bills horse troughs — vintage Australia
[edit] References
- ^ a b http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abreuvoir . accessed 2.12.2011
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