quai
pronunciation
How to pronounce quai in British English:
UK [keɪ]
How to pronounce quai in American English:
US [keɪ]
Word Origin
- quai (n.)
- 1870, "public path beside a waterway," from French quai (12c., see quay). Often short for Quai d'Orsay, the street on the south bank of the Seine in Paris, since mid-19c. site of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and hence sometimes used metonymically for it (1922).
Example
- 1. He tried to run the quai as an aid agency .
- 2. The coward quai - led before the enemy .
- 3. One former foreign minister says " the quai is genuinely demoralised , because they are totally out of the game . "
- 4. The essential oil in dong quai contains ligustilide , butyl phthalide , ferulic acid and various polysaccharides are also present .
- 5. The quai branly museum may be just six years old , but it is in its way old-fashioned , a throwback to a less timorous time when museums were proud to display human scalps and heads shrunken by amazon tribes ( pictured ) .