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quinteau.

a heap, pile, or stack, such as of sugar or hay

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Meaning & usage

noun/kɛ̃.to/[kɛ̃to]Louisiana, Quebec[kɛ̃ti̯o]
  1. a heap, pile, or stack, such as of sugar or hay

    North-America · masculine
Where this word comes from

Emigrants from Perche brought the term to New France, and hence into Canadian and Louisiana French. Its pronunciation was "normalized" (to drop the [i̯], to match the pronunciation of other words ending in -eau) either by the Perche speakers when they spoke to non-Perche speakers, or by those other speakers after they borrowed the term.

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