chasme

chasme
(entrée créée par le supplément)
(ka-sm') s. m.
Néologisme. Entr'ouverture béante, gouffre.
   Il y a des auberges sur la rive américaine et sur la rive anglaise, des moulins et des manufactures au-dessous du chasme, CHATEAUBR. Mém. d'outre-tombe (édit. de Bruxelles), t. I, Cataracte de Niagara, etc..
   Je me serais bien arrangé de finil mes jours dans le castel qui domine le chasme, CHATEAUBR. ib. t. V, Bords du Rhin..
   Angl. chasm, du lat. chasma, du grec, ouverture béante, du grec, être béant.

Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré. . 1872-1877.

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