Synonyms for abattoirs

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ab-uh-twahr, ab-uh-twahr

Phonetic Transcription : ˈæb əˌtwɑr, ˌæb əˈtwɑr

Définition of abattoirs

Origin : "slaughterhouse for cows," 1820, from French abattre "to beat down" (see abate) + suffix -oir, corresponding to Latin -orium (see -ory).

As in slaughterhouse : noun killing place

Example sentences :

It was true, then, that these human brutes from the abattoirs were here.
Extract from : « Mlle. Fouchette » by Charles Theodore Murray

He was out at the abattoirs, where after a three-mile drive we obtained him.
Extract from : « Five Months at Anzac » by Joseph Lievesley Beeston

Some things can be kept out of the way: abattoirs, operating-theatres, vivisection-hells.
Extract from : « Furze the Cruel » by John Trevena

We also get green-salted skins from the abattoirs of the city of Paris, and from lots of other places, too.
Extract from : « The Story of Leather » by Sara Ware Bassett

Among the latter, too, was the particularly heavy stick of the patriot from the abattoirs of La Villette.
Extract from : « Mlle. Fouchette » by Charles Theodore Murray

I determined to make my sortie by way of the Temple Market and the Belleville abattoirs.
Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873. » by Various

The landing of foreign cattle is permitted by the Board of Trade, and there are cattle lairs and abattoirs near the Cardiff wharf.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 » by Various

That amount has been accurately determined by Dujardin-Beaumetz in the course of experiments made in the abattoirs of Paris.
Extract from : « Health, Happiness, and Longevity » by Louis Philippe McCarty

Country slaughterhouses should be as cleanly and as constantly inspected as abattoirs.
Extract from : « House Rats and Mice » by David E. Lantz

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