The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sarrasin
Sarrasin \Sar"ra*sin\, Sarrasine \Sar"ra*sine\, n. [F. sarrasine, LL. saracina. See Saracen.] (Fort.) A portcullis, or herse. [Written also sarasin.]
Usage examples of "sarrasin".
The rue Sarrasin was no more than two hundred feet long, frozen in time between the stone walls of waterfront buildings, devoid of streetlights, trapping the mists that rolled off the harbor.
Our source was to make contact with Cain during the hours of midnight and three in the morning in the rue Sarrasin on August 23.
They claimed to have gotten word that Cain was to meet someone in the rue Sarrasin a night or so before the assassination.