The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trottoir \Trot"toir\, n. [F., from trotter to trot. See Trot.] Footpath; pavement; sidewalk.
Headless bodies trailed along the trottoirs.
--Froude.
Wiktionary
n. footpath; pavement; sidewalk
Usage examples of "trottoir".
The trottoir paving, in most of the streets, is extremely good, being of large flag stones, very superior to the bricks of Philadelphia.
Such a figure it was that outlined itself in the sunny light, standing on the white trottoir, and with the vista of the Champs Elysees behind it--a form seductive in every line, with a fine hip, and a tiny arched foot that tapped the pavement impatiently.
He did not see me for a minute, engaged with paying the cocher and hunting for a pourboire, and then he was just going straight across the lighted trottoir into the hotel when I called to him.
Miss Ross walked defiantly on, keeping her place on the trottoir with a grim determination not to be pushed off it by all the voyous in Paris, and though his presence was, as he well knew, entirely superfluous upon the occasion, he could not pay her the questionable compliment of leaving her to prove her independence alone.
I had jumped down on the trottoir, and run round the block of carriages in front of the barouche.