droit de lavage aux timbres sur des issues communes entre X et Y
English translation: right to wash at sinks at common entrances ...
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| 3 | right to wash the bells / doorbells at the common exits between X and Y |
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right to wash the bells / doorbells at the common exits between X and Y Explanation: It's the only meaning of timbre I can think of that might make sense here. |
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right to wash at sinks at common entrances ... Explanation: "un timbre-d'office est un évier profond, à simple ou double bac, que l'on installe dans les arrières cuisines, des plonges, des laveries ou des buanderies", says Dicobat, which proposes "mop sink" and "cleaner's sink" as the English. Sounds like the old "stone" (socalled; at any rate, it was not white ceramic) laundry sink of my youth, the one I remember filling to the brim with my elder brother and watching a clutch of ducklings swimming about in, at my eye level. More technically, it might be a London sink or a Belfast sink, but I think "sink" is plenty here. You sometimes see "timbres" still at the "postes d'eau" on landings, outside the common toilets. |
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