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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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