[F. (16th c.), f. trotter to TROT + -oir, L. -ōrium.] A paved footway on each side of a street; a pavement. Also attrib.
1804. Edinb. Rev., Jan., 337. A neat trottoir of flat stones runs before the doors.
1828. H. Best, Italy as it is, 88. Milan is well paved, though there are no trottoirs, or foot passengers’ pavements.
1832. Mrs. F. Trollope, Dom. Mann. Amer., xxx. (1839), 293. The trottoir paving, in most of the streets, is extremely good, being of large flag stones, very superior to the bricks of Philadelphia.
1864. G. Musgrave, Ten Days Fr. Parsonage, I. i. 22. Water-carts … irrigating … the splashed … pedestrians on the trottoir.
Hence Trottoired a., furnished with a trottoir.
1858. Mayhew, Upper Rhine, iv. (1860), 185. The streets … are mostly broad and trottoired.
