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cordeaux

cordeaux is the plural of cordeau.

Meaning of cordeau

Noun

cordeau (countable and uncountable, plural cordeaux)

  1. (archaic) A detonating cord.
    • The middle section of cordeau is attached (by means of a string) to a narrow lead plate, […]1960, Basil Timothy Fedoroff, Encyclopedia of Explosives and Related Items, volume 3, page 312

Proper noun capitalized: Cordeaux

Cordeaux

  1. A suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

Words formed from cordeaux

Questions about cordeaux

What does cordeaux mean?
Cordeaux means a suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
What is cordeaux the plural of?
Cordeaux is the plural of cordeau.
What part of speech is cordeaux?
Cordeaux is a proper noun.

Words near cordeaux in the dictionary

  1. cordately
  2. cordates
  3. cordax
  4. cordaxes
  5. cordeau
  6. cordeaux
  7. Cordeaux Heights
  8. cordebec
  9. cordebeck
  10. cordebecks
  11. cordebecs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cordeaux (page history and authors); Cordeaux (page history and authors); cordeau (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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