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noun, masculine

billon

/bi.jɔ̃/

noun, masculine/bi.jɔ̃/plural: billons

A log or hunk of wood; billon; ridge (in a ploughed field)

From Old French bille (“stick of wood”), from Medieval Latin billa, billia, from Gaulish *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolyo- (“leaf”).