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How about "resting place" if it is related to a church yard/cemetary.
Nancy
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Saint Mittre
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> German has a word of similar meaning, "der Driesch", seemingly related
> to German "dreschen", English "thresh", etc. It too exists in toponyms
> of ecclesiastical import, e.g. the "Gereonsdriesch", the street and
> narrow park in Koeln (for the Deutsch-challenged, Cologne) behind the
> formerly monastic church of Sankt Gereon.
>
> How does one say this in English? I translate "Driesch" privately as
> "fallow area" but have long wondered if there isn't some other term for
> it that has become conventional.
>
> Best again,
> John Dillon
>
>
> On Sunday, June 12, 2005, at 09:22 am, Denis Hue wrote:
>
>> Anyway, the "aire" is just a plane place; in the french rural
>> tradition, it
>> was the clear place where the wheat was threshed.
>> Nowadays, it is the resting place bordering the highways.
>> In old french, the "aire" is just a place non cultivated
>
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