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Cul-de-sac

2 stages from French to English.

Today it means a street or passage closed at one end, a dead end
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Stage 1 of 2
cul-de-sac
French · 1700s
"the bottom of a bag"
literally bottom of a bag, describing a dead-end passage
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Stage 2 of 2
cul-de-sac
English · 1738
"a street closed at one end"
adopted directly for a street closed at one end
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