arrêt

From French arrêt.

arrêt (plural arrêts)

1. (now historical) A formal sentence of the King or Parliament of France; hence, a decree, a ruling.
   • 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France, Broadview 2002, p. 123:

     His father now shewed him an arret, which, on the fourth of June, 1776, he had obtained from the parliament of Rouen against his marriage.

   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     ‘Prior Aymer,’ said the Templar, ‘you are a man of gallantry, learned in the study of beauty, and as expert as a troubadour in all matters concerning the arrets of love […] .’

• Arter, Terra, arter, rater, retar, tarre, terra

From arrêter.

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁɛ/

• audio (un arrêt)

  (file)

• Homophone: arrêts

arrêt m (plural arrêts)

1. stopping, checking, arrest (in development, growth, machinery etc.)
2. stop (place)
3. (law) judgment, ruling
4. safety catch, stop button
5. (hockey) stop, save

• “arrêt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• errât, rater, râter, terra