abattoir

[ ab-uh-twahr, ab-uh-twahr ]

/ ˈæb əˌtwɑr, ˌæb əˈtwɑr /

a slaughterhouse.

Origin of abattoir

1810–20; < French, equivalent to abatt(re) to slaughter (see abate) + -oir -ory²

abate, abatement, abatis, abator, abattage, abattoir, abaxial, abaya, abb, abba, abba-dabba

The abattoir was being used as a distribution plant for the meat of cattle slaughtered outside the city.

What Intolerant Buddhist Monks Are Doing to Sri Lanka |Kapil Komireddi |April 12, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
A view down into the wild, Art Deco abattoir now called the 1933 Center in Shanghai.

A Slaughterhouse with Style |Blake Gopnik |October 3, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Shall I to the abattoir and ask the slayer of oxen for a steak?

Kentucky in American Letters, v. 1 of 2 |John Wilson Townsend
The still hunting of the natives has all the romance and danger attending the slaughter of sheep in an abattoir.

In the Wilderness |Charles Dudley Warner

Have you ever seen a herd of cattle being driven to abattoir on a fine May morning?

One Man's Initiation--1917 |John Dos Passos
It was only a scratch and he had been knocked down like a beef in an abattoir by an unseen enemy, on whom he could not lay hands!

The Last Shot |Frederick Palmer
Its position, near a small ravine in which runs a brook, may lead us to suppose that here was the abattoir of the Roman army.

History of Julius Caesar Vol. 2 of 2 |Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.

abattoir

/ (ˈæbəˌtwɑː) /

another name for slaughterhouse

C19: French, from abattre to fell