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abattoirs
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abattoir \A`bat`toir"\ ([.a]`b[.a]t`tw[aum]r"), n.; pl. Abattoirs (-tw[aum]rz"). [F., fr. abattre to beat down. See Abate.] A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of abattoir English)
Usage examples of "abattoirs".
They are almost always outside the town in these strange sections where cities are manufactured near freight stations, car‑barns, abattoirs, gas tanks.
These last two materials could be obtained for next to nothing from the several abattoirs in the vicinity, and as for the wood, it lay all round about, clogging up the land, and people were burning it just to get rid of it.
They turned the cities into abattoirs, going so far as to slaughter hundreds (perhaps thousands) of people within the sacred tombs of the martyrs 'Ali, Hussein, and Adnan, punching holes in the mosques themselves with tank fire.