Definitions

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  • adjective Able to be carted or carried
  • adjective Able to be traveled by cart

Etymologies

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cart +‎ -able

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Examples

  • One day, I was telling a few English friends about my catching grasshoppers on the way to school, putting them in a box secretly kept in my "cartable" (satchel) and releasing them in the classroom.

    se tromper - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • One day, I was telling a few English friends about my catching grasshoppers on the way to school, putting them in a box secretly kept in my "cartable" satchel and releasing them in the classroom.

    se tromper - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • The wheels Jackie longs for are slightly bigger than a two euro coin and they are attached to a hefty, multi-pocketed cartable.

    Enfants 2004

  • * References: une autoroute (f) = a motorway; fay-rar-ee = pronunciation for Ferrari; un cartable (m) = school bag; une roulette = a small wheel; une élève (f) = a student; maman (f) = a mother; dix-sept ans = seventeen in Enfants | Permalink

    Enfants 2004

  • Soon enough she discovered that the cartable à roulettes wasn't so easy to navigate through the hordes of bag-encumbered élèves.

    Enfants 2004

  • Je crois également que l'on prépare un cartable électronique pour les élèves des écoles, ce qui pourrait être bon pour leur dos ...

    Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

  • Where do kit houses (also called modular housing or cartable homes) fall into this picture?

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2010

  • Where do kit houses (also called modular housing or cartable homes) fall into this picture?

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2010

  • Where do kit houses (also called modular housing or cartable homes) fall into this picture?

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2010

  • And then the years of study, study, study marked by ever-larger cahiers -- "cahier" and "cartable" are the words that identify French DNA better than Piaf or gauloises, isn't that true?

    Jihad Watch 2009

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